Re: units_cur

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> I believe that GNU units ("units" package) needs more patching to
> function properly:
>
>> sudo units_cur
> Unable to write to output file:
> [Errno 30] Read-only file system: 
> '/gnu/store/cqvsljfz81xkwfnd4ln2zk4194wjjcgd-units-2.16/share/units/currency.units'
>
> On other systems, one is supposed to run `sudo units_cur' to update the
> exchange rates in the currency.units file.

We could build it with --localstatedir=/var, but would the initial
‘currency.units’ be picked up?

It would be awesome if you could give it a try and report back.

Thank you,
Ludo’.