Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <someb...@not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr> skrev: (6 mars 2019 15:31:13 CET) >Hullo, > >swedebugia wrote: >> I'm trying to build New Moon (unbranded palemoon browser) in >> parabola. >> The tmpfs i 2G which is way too little it seems. >> >> I read the man page of guix-daemon and the manual and could not >> find a >> way to point guix-daemon to another tmpdir than /tmp. > >Well, TMPDIR= should Just Work :-) > >You'll have to set it to the environment of guix-daemon (and >restart the daemon) for it to have any effect. How that's done >depends on your service manager/init system. > >I guess a ‘set-tmpdir’ RPC could be added to the protocol. I >haven't thought through the security implications, and IMO it's >just papering over the real bug, which is… > >> Is this a bug? > >Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but yes, I do think >that using /tmp instead of /var/tmp (or any non-tmpfs) is a bug by >modern(?) conventions. It's guaranteed to break eventually on >almost every non-Guix System, and when it doesn't it's an abuse of >RAM and swap space. > >Kind regards, > >T G-R
Hi 😃 Thanks for the details. I agree that it is a bug. I solved it by masking tmp.mount in systemd according to the arch wiki and thus disabled tmpfs for the whole thing. -- Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.
