From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: Removing the need for ./configure --localstatedir=/var ? Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:14:38 +0300 Message-ID: <20170907191438.GI2239@macbook42.flashner.co.il> References: <87bmmm30iq.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="72k7VsmfIboquFwl" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq2GE-0003fH-7f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:14:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq2G9-0006mF-HF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:14:46 -0400 Received: from flashner.co.il ([178.62.234.194]:37748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq2G9-0006lW-9h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:14:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bmmm30iq.fsf@dustycloud.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" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --72k7VsmfIboquFwl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:02:43PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Every now and then I rebuild Guix and hit the problem where I run > ./configure and then I am reminded that I need to instead do: >=20 > ./configure --localstatedir=3D/var >=20 > IIRC this is because of GNU standards about default paths and pretty > much no other reason that we don't default to /var. But I think Guix is > a special case. >=20 > Should we ask maybe for an exception? There's no reason for users to > bump into this. It's annoying even for me, and at least I know (or > think I do) why. >=20 > - Chris >=20 I've made sure to also pass --sysconfdir=3D/etc so that /etc/guix/acl doesn't end up in /usr/local/etc/guix/acl, leading to a split between `guix foo' and './pre-inst-env guix foo'. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --72k7VsmfIboquFwl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEoov0DD5VE3JmLRT3Qarn3Mo9g1EFAlmxmp4ACgkQQarn3Mo9 g1G9DBAAvthHzwNAwOrx884NGNMkSM/lFvzAQZLghY4ZEGRkL6m3tnONX/oFYDuV yR5RCRGELwPcUrv5aGLlxGHZAoND1xBceTMWO8K7qr/KTnIOeATLRXTfl/rcmay0 jYZgY4EMo0PvM5SDHVL4ttYx3GqfYpKJ2pgpR4Gd4m2FZa+4Ekwji69wpZUQHISz lfQG7tXTW/J12r16AWDvwlGensGITwThTuE/2WyYCnKOGYuGohWTUSkTTqpnmPHI ZVqG1UOy7hfIl+cJPHmcQN4PGroGxEJQJzS4k1U/sPLEAbTzkukORaQYPa+HDNLK ZpjsaEi/TlRvLRDAhUJo2B4LHCn5OYsA4uAoeydq6iVzCh3uZeBRA3JlYLg+5UIl qfLDqdFe+OtkkPQbA9EtDrarUGukI+MnHOTWK/eqrxlqUqX9g4qP4aN4jonwbp5e 2prPJbjF2jjahzTHu1iqMucItR7vSDQn1UTR//mcnAI1CT+DtgPthnHggfTF0E/D k8YVyP1pNHwx0im7BlK7/Jp8SHmCD6N9mVtiD/YzCAjtCK/xCMWY9r9DhdTjrDcr HliqTh8hXmJpp/ppA4T7AFOfkNJsTzUDFHK95mOj5h1cVYrN0p789rmDszTXLuTn Jyj7Ih/bK6IMyWlLQRoWuisMWN13a05MC7WYb0SAMHMcOS92Vf0= =TwpP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --72k7VsmfIboquFwl--