I'm working on getting Nix onto our clusters to augment our standard CentOS 6 stack as a shared NFS mounted store. I've reset the top level /nix directory to be on one of our shared storage systems (config.nix.storeDir and config.nix.stateDir).
For the most part this has worked pretty well. Grepping the repo for /nix/store and /nix/var reveals several packages have baked in these paths. I was going to go through and change these to config.nix.storeDir and config.nix.stateDir as appropriate. Upon reflection though, I don't think that is correct. It should be the value for the running nix toolset and not the one that toolset would specify to a new toolset it built as former, not the later, is where packages compiled with the current toolset are going to windup. I don't see any easy way to get this though. This leaves me wondering if a new primop to expose the running toolsets value for the store and state directories is the way to go. If I added this would it be something that would be accepted back into the tree? Thanks! -Tyson _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
