Re: statedir locations

2014-01-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-28 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:23:16AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: I was overconfident: the patch broke everything, because Automake-generated makefiles typically try to mkdir $localstatedir: http://hydra.gnu.org/eval/45514 So I just reverted it, and I think

statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread John Darrington
It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system) default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that the statedirs (ie: sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for installing data files *which the programs modify while they run*

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system) default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that the statedirs (ie: sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system) default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that the statedirs (ie: sharedstatedir

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system) default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system) default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/. Recall that the statedirs (ie: sharedstatedir