From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: statedir locations
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:50:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140127115015.GA13396@jocasta.intra> (raw)
It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system)
default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that the statedirs (ie:
sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for installing data files *which the programs
modify while they run* [1]. Obviously a program cannot modify anything under /nix/store
I think we need to update the default configure flags.
J'
[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables
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next reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-27 11:50 John Darrington [this message]
2014-01-27 12:57 ` statedir locations Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 13:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-27 14:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 5:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-28 9:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 22:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 17:53 ` John Darrington
2014-01-28 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
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