Re: Stateful system directories

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Efraim,
>
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config:
>>
>> ;; This directory shouldn't exist
>> (file-system
>>   (device "none")
>>   (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig")
>>   (type "tmpfs")
>>   (flags '(read-only))
>>   (check? #f))
>
> yes! now that I read this I see how to workaround this class of
> problems, thanks! 
>
> This snippet IMHO deserves a section in the Cookbook: would you please
> like to expand this in a proper section/subsection and submit a patch?

I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook.  For
both fontconfig and the gdm user account’s home directory we should push
a workaround very soon.

>> While we work on fixing these
>
> we in Guix you mean? shouldn't it be fixed upstream?

These problems don’t seem to happen on any distribution.  We still have
to diagnose why that is.

-- 
Ricardo