GNU bug report logs - #29813
doc: localstatedir is used ambigously

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: doc: localstatedir is used ambigously
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:38:31 +0100

In the documentation, localstatedir is sometimes used as if it was /var
and sometimes as /var/guix.

examples:
the doc page 'the store' contains LOCALSTATEDIR/guix/db.
but the doc page for guix-daemon contains LOCALSTATEDIR/daemon-socket/socket
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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
Cc: 29813-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29813: doc: localstatedir is used ambigously
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:05:39 +0100

Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de> skribis:

> In the documentation, localstatedir is sometimes used as if it was /var
> and sometimes as /var/guix.
>
> examples:
> the doc page 'the store' contains LOCALSTATEDIR/guix/db.
> but the doc page for guix-daemon contains LOCALSTATEDIR/daemon-socket/socket

Good catch!  Fixed in fae7973e1f2eb1aba3f17c415b8886c4b00fd1a8.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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