Re: GNUsocial package?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:

>> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup
>> experience who could make a statement on the installation
>> process?
>
> I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install,
> I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document
> root.
>
> However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be
> writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those
> directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is
> in the store, and the store is read-only.

That’s not a problem.  Nginx, for example, also needs writable
directories, so we override the location of these directories to /var or
/run.  Something similar could be done with GNU Social.

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Ricardo

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