Hi Simon, Simon Tournier <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, > >> "26a788ae06 doc: Add some information/recommendation regarding >> --sysconfdir." >> >> that I hope rectifies this! >> >> Let me know if something can be improved still. > > I think the “make install” part means here “./pre-inst-env guix pull”. > Well, that’s the only case where I had troubles because this value is > recorded and can be propagated. Consider, > > ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make > ./pre-inst-env guix pull > guix pull --commit=1234abc > > and compared to the sequence without ./pre-inst-env: > > guix pull > guix pull -- commit=1234abc > > then it does not lead to the exact same Guix. 'sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ...' would be another such incantation that requires --sysconfdir to be set to /etc. Since we now recommend it to always be used, it is covered should these "advanced" commands be used, I think. -- Thanks, Maxim
