From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more.
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:35:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56e089f1.cf0b1c0a.16f31.1c9a@mx.google.com> (raw)
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This should hopefully stop people from running in to issues when
building Guix from source as they have in the past.
* doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Add explanation of the localstatedir flag.
Discuss how to keep compatibility with binary installation and the package.
---
doc/guix.texi | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 0e8e5ad..94323ff 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari
-Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft
+Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Jookia
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -514,6 +515,18 @@ manager} is available, you
can instead configure Guix with @code{--disable-daemon}. In that case,
Nix replaces the three dependencies above.
+Tradionally Guix stores its state in @var{localstatedir} as most GNU
+applications do. In certain situations you may want to change this setting,
+by passing the @code{--localstatedir=@var{path}} flag to @command{configure}.
+
+The binary installation of Guix and the package of Guix both use @code{/var} as
+their @var{localstatedir} path. If you wish to have compatibility with one of
+these versions of Guix installed or you plan to install, passing
+@code{--localstatedir=/var} to @command{configure} will allow your compiled Guix
+to share state. Be warned that sharing the same Guix store (usually located at
+@code{/gnu}) with different sets of state could cause issues such as garbage
+collecting store entries that are alive in one Guix's state but not the other's.
+
Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same store
between both. To do so, you must pass @command{configure} not only the
same @code{--with-store-dir} value, but also the same
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next reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 20:35 Jookia [this message]
2016-03-09 21:07 ` [PATCH] doc: Explain --localstatedir some more Andreas Enge
2016-03-09 21:24 ` Jookia
2016-03-09 21:39 ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-10 6:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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