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Re: units_cur
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: units_cur |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:18:29 +0200 |
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Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Looking more closely, you might be able to add a ~/.units file with:
>>
>> include my-updated-currency.units
>
> Note that the actual command must start with a `!`, so it would be:
>
> !include my-updated-currency.units
OK.
>> Could you check if that works?
>
> It does. This would definitely work, but then what about the failing
> `sudo units_cur`?
>
> I think this should be documented. Either by patching the documentation
> of units_cur itself so that if run with `sudo`, it displays the above
> hint instead.
Hmm, dunno. Perhaps we could modify ‘units’ to look for
/var/run/units/currency.units first, and fall back to
/gnu/store/…-units/share/units/currency.units.
We would also arrange for ‘units_cur’ to update the file in /var/run by
default.
WDYT?
I’m not offering to work on the patch, though. :-)
Ludo’.