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Re: How to change the store location
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: How to change the store location |
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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:47:34 -0500 |
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 03:19:57PM +0000, Jean-Christophe HAESSIG wrote:
> I'm experimenting with Guix to use it on an HPC cluster. In the docs it
> is written that the store's *default* location is /gnu/store/ but I
> can't find how that location ca be changed. Same for /var/guix.
These are configured while building Guix:
$ ./configure --help
[...]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
[...]
--with-store-dir=PATH file name of the store (defaults to /gnu/store)
[...]
If you change the store directory, then you won't be able to use
substitutes from the project's build farm.