Re: statedir locations

2014-01-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > 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 >

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 w

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> John Darrington skribis: > It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu > build system) > default their

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > >> John Darrington 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 >>> sta

Re: statedir locations

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

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > John Darrington 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 r

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> John Darrington 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: >>>

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > John Darrington 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 ru

Re: statedir locations

2014-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington 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 installing data files > *whi

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*