From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNUsocial package?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:49:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k227hmym.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c34d2ea9.ADkAACpKU00AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAf6@mailjet.com>
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:
>> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup
>> experience who could make a statement on the installation
>> process?
>
> I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install,
> I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document
> root.
>
> However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be
> writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those
> directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is
> in the store, and the store is read-only.
That’s not a problem. Nginx, for example, also needs writable
directories, so we override the location of these directories to /var or
/run. Something similar could be done with GNU Social.
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-13 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-12 10:16 GNUsocial package? ng0
2017-08-13 8:04 ` Arun Isaac
2017-08-13 8:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-08-15 13:09 ` Joshua Branson
2017-08-16 12:02 ` Arun Isaac
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