Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> writes: >> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup >> experience who could make a statement on the installation >> process? > > I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install, > I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document > root. > > However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be > writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those > directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is > in the store, and the store is read-only.
That’s not a problem. Nginx, for example, also needs writable directories, so we override the location of these directories to /var or /run. Something similar could be done with GNU Social. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
