Re: statedir locations

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> John Darrington <address@hidden> 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 
>>> *which the programs
>>> modify while they run* [1].   Obviously a program cannot modify anything 
>>> under /nix/store
>>> I think we need to update the default configure flags.
>>
>> Yes.  We actually have a number of local modifications:
>>
>>   $ grep -e --localstatedir gnu/packages/*.scm | wc -l
>>   5
>>
>> I think we should change gnu-build-system.scm to pass
>> --localstatedir=/var, unless ‘configure-flags’ specify another setting.
>>
>> I’ll do that in ‘core-updates’.
>
> What about 'sharestatedir' and 'runstatedir'?

‘runstatedir’ is in the not-yet-released Autoconf, but otherwise, yeah,
they all deserve the same treatment.

Ludo’.