Is there a way to share compiled packages?

[beroal]

I see that compiled packages are put deep inside the home directory of the user running rua. In order to share compiled packages, I execute mount --bind /home/${USER}/.local/share/rua/checked_tars /usr/share/rua/checked_tars. Is there a better way, probably, a command-line option for rua for setting up this directory?

[vn971]

@beroal you mean that you'd like RUA to put built packages in /usr/share/... ?

To clarify a bit on how rua works: it follows the XDG specification when it can. checked_tars in particular are stored in the "data directory", used via this library function: https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs/blob/main/src/lib.rs#L206

What would also work in practice is to override XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable (rua doesn't store anything else in XDG_DATA_HOME anyway).

Does that answer the concern?

[vn971]

@beroal I've improved the docs for that additionally: https://github.com/vn971/rua/commit/f2430057255b8a39148b02998452af5a112cc739

[beroal]

Does that answer the concern?

Yes. If I set appropriate permissions for /usr/share/rua and start rua with the environment variable XDG_DATA_HOME set to /usr/share, rua puts compiled packages directly into /usr/share/rua/checked_tars. Thank you.

Actually, I knew these variables and these paths, but didn't realize you actually read the variables. You could have just put environment variable names into the table and say that they have default values according to the FreeDesktop specification.

[vn971]

Thanks for confirming! I'll close the issue. With the documentation added to the bottom, I hope most people would grasp what's going on. If that'll prove to not be the case (e.g. raised issues), we could re-visit.