From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running IceCat in a container
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:19:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1w0rsud.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgggligx.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Actually there are really two approaches we could use. One is to create
> wrappers like this one that do the right thing, independently of what
> the user’s profile contains (‘guix package’ could even generate wrappers
> automatically in some cases.)
>
> The second approach is a ‘guix run/environment’ kind of command that
> generates the environment at run time.
>
> There are pros and cons to both, I think.
This is just a tangent:
I’ve been thinking that “guix run” (or an extension of “guix container”)
would be great not only for running applications in containers that are
*already* in the store, but also to run applications from tarballs that
were generated with "guix pack“.
pack=$(guix pack $(readlink -f $HOME/.guix-profile) -S /bin=bin)
guix run --image=${pack} /bin/icecat
Look, we’ve got our own container image format! :) This seems to cover
85% of all uses of Docker/Singularity in the field of bioinformatics.
~~~
The setup to create configuration files and set environment variables so
that the target application feels at home in the container — that all
looks an awful lot like profile hooks to me. Maybe we can have a set of
common hooks that we can automatically derive from package inputs?
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 1:56 Running IceCat in a container Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-16 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 2:25 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 19:05 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 23:20 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-18 1:53 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-25 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-25 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:52 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-29 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-30 2:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-01-30 17:21 ` Running code from packs in containers Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-19 17:42 ` Running IceCat in a container ng0
2018-01-29 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
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