Hi, in the HPC setup at the MDC, we have a shared Guix installation, which provides the daemon and a reasonably recent “guix” command, which should be enough to let people run “guix pull”. This Guix installation is really just a configured and built git checkout, and the “guix-daemon” is started with “./pre-inst-env guix-daemon” in a suitable environment.
This is ugly, so I’d like to switch to “guix pull”, which provides both the daemon and the “guix” command. For historical reasons, Guix here is configured with localstatedir=/gnu/var instead of just /var. “guix pull”, however, provides a Guix that is configured with “localstatedir=/var”. How can I override this? -- Ricardo
