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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing packages auto-container'ed
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:31:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8oyx3xj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dvn10ro.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Lemmer Webber's message of "Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:41:15 -0400")

Hi Chris!

Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Would it be possible to make launching applications in Guix with minimum
> permissions even easier?  Here's just a sketch of an idea.
>
> Borrowing from the new containerizing an application example in the
> manual...
>
> In my manifest.scm, what if instead of listing the browser package
> eolie, I listed the following:
>
>   (define containerized-eolie
>     (wrap-containerized eolie
>                         #:network? #t
>                         ;; Not sure if this line would be needed.
>                         #:other-packages (list coreutils nss-certs dbus)
>                         #:expose '("/etc/machine-id")
>                         #:share '(("/home/cwebber/tmp/shared-with-browser"
>                                    . "/home/cwebber/shared"))
>                         #:share-env '("DISPLAY")))
>
>   ;; now here's my list of packages
>   (list emacs
>         containerized-eolie
>         ...)
>
> The idea here is that containerized-eolie actually generates a new
> package that "wraps" every binary that would be installed, as well as
> all common launchers, to use a script that actually launches them in a
> container with the above restrictions.

Definitely, it’s a great idea!

The ‘wrap-containerized’ procedure above wouldn’t be hard to write
((guix scripts pack) has something similar).  It could use a trick as in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-01/msg00118.html> to
automatically determine some of the default file system mappings.

The next step I think would be to make a package transformation option
for that, so one could say:

  guix install eolie --contained=eolie

or similar.

Ludo’.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-01 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-01 19:41 Installing packages auto-container'ed Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-01 20:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-07-01 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-07-02  9:20 ` L p R n d n

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