Re: units_cur

[Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>>> Hmm, dunno.  Perhaps we could modify ‘units’ to look for
>>> /var/run/units/currency.units first, and fall back to
>>> /gnu/store/…-units/share/units/currency.units.
>>>
>>> We would also arrange for ‘units_cur’ to update the file in /var/run by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> That sounds reasonable to me.  What's the purpose of /var/run on GuixSD?
>> How is it used?
>
> On GNU/Linux /var/run is the standard location to store “state” files.
> See ‘runstatedir’ in
> <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>.

So how do you get units to use runstatedir instead?
Is there some autoconf way to do it are do we have to patch the code
directly?

I think it would be worth mentioning the issue upstream then.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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