From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 04:12:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216171232.GA12187@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216164109.GA5983@solar>
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:41:09PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> There is also a middle ground that would be possible: Move some of the
> content of localstatedir to /gnu; this would make sense for the sqlite
> database, for instance. Then it would be possible to copy /gnu from one
> system to another. On the other hand, there are quite a few more things
> in /var/guix, so maybe this is not really sensible.
I'm not sure how that would really fix the issue that people are hitting: Say we
move some of the content to /gnu, things like profiles, the daemon socket, all
the things that Guix looks for and symlinks to won't be found if Guix looks in
/usr/local/var/guix and /gnu instead of /var/guix and /gnu.
> Andreas
Jookia.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 13:57 The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Jookia
2016-02-16 14:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-16 14:52 ` Jookia
2016-02-16 16:41 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 17:12 ` Jookia [this message]
2016-02-16 17:16 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 16:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-02-16 16:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-02-16 19:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-16 19:59 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-02-16 22:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-02-17 9:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-17 8:06 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 8:38 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 9:15 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 10:08 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 17:50 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 18:00 ` Jookia
2016-02-17 18:23 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-17 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-17 22:19 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-18 1:12 ` Jookia
2016-03-18 18:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19 3:27 ` Jookia
2016-03-19 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
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