Re: Archive authentication & ‘guix challenge’

[Ludovic Courtès]

myglc2 <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden ~/src/guix [env]$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
>
> ... it gave this message ...
>
> [...]
> checking the current installation's localstatedir... /var
> configure: error: chosen localstatedir '/usr/local/var' does not match that 
> of the existing installation '/var'
> Installing may corrupt /gnu/store!
> Use './configure --localstatedir=/var'.
>
> ... which left me wondering if it meant ...

Do like it says.  :-)

That is, it noticed that your system has /var/guix/db and that you were
configuring with a different state directory, which is a mistake you’d
rather avoid (see the bits about localstatedir at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Requirements.html>).

So:

  ./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc -C

Ludo’.