From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:12:37 +1100 Message-ID: <20160318011237.GA11599@novena-choice-citizen.lan> References: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <87k2l0oiub.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46411) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1agj2Q-0006ia-M7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:17:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1agj2P-0005Pn-Td for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:17:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k2l0oiub.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:11:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > However, for the purpose of avoiding bad surprises (configuring Guix > with the wrong localstatedir), I thought we could have a ‘configure’ > check that would compare the chosen localstatedir with the current > installation’s localstatedir, and bail out if they don’t match. > WDYT? I think that'd be fantastic, though I'm not sure this would work too well if you're planning to boostrap. I also submitted some documentation as a patch which might help. Perhaps it might make sense to make it a variable that needs to be explicitly set? > Thanks, and apologies for the delay! > > Ludo’. Jookia.