Any takers? I meant XDG above. On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 2:52 PM Hafeez Bana <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am planning to use guix for sharing dev environments under non-root unix > accounts across developers. > > These environment run services like mysql, a webserver etc. Installing > such software is trivial. What is the best practice for running this > software? A couple of pointed questions > > 1) What is the best/accepted way to store configuration and state data for > such services? It the XFG format applicable? > 2) If a package ships with a set of starting configs/state data which a > developer can use to bootstrap and modify his setup. What is the best way > to 'initialize this config/state'? Is just a link to the GNU-store enough > 3) What is the best way to run long lived (aka outside a shell) services > running services based around this software? > > I've already asked this question in a round about way. Some people have > pointed to existing configs - but these are for running whole systems in a > container. I need something a developer can bootstrap into and modify that > could eventually run as a container in a prod env. > > Thanks, > Hafeez >
