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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Scheck <singularsyntax@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix Docker image inflation
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 11:37:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1mDnKMzRCkw7xOKJiKmxCEg7pu2om7aR4cZjmCTzL+8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKjnHz0iLR8wALop3ktXdEoDf5iFSFh0X4kprKNFVSEwasRkAw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Stephen,

On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 19:13, Stephen Scheck <singularsyntax@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, it is not layers - they are a symptom, not the cause. See my reply to Chris.
> The problem is clearly that Guix isn't deleting garbage files ... which may have something
> to do with how Guix interacts with files in the file system and differences in Docker
> environments (no idea, I don't know how Guix works, but perhaps it needs some special
> privilege enabled when it runs inside Docker containers?), but layers themselves do not
> prevent file deletion inside a container.

No, it is how Docker is designed.  Maybe the terminology "layer" is
not the Docker one but when the images are chained, one cannot remove
the data of the previous layer of the total image.


> It is possible to host your own external Runners, and have them utilized by
> CI/CD jobs running inside the GitLab cloud service. You could install Guix
> on them and configure your CI/CD pipeline to require execution of certain
> jobs on these custom runners. But I'm not sure I see why that would help?

Because if you run Guix outside an Docker container, you will not have
the issue.  The main issue is how the Docker "filesystem" is designed.


All the best,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-31  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27 19:41 Guix Docker image inflation Stephen Scheck
2020-05-28 18:10 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-29 16:19   ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 17:08     ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-29 17:56       ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 18:02         ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-29 18:21           ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-29 18:37             ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-29 18:44               ` zimoun
2020-05-29 21:24                 ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 18:29           ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 17:12     ` zimoun
2020-05-29 17:36       ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 18:08 ` zimoun
2020-05-29 18:47   ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 20:02     ` zimoun
2020-05-29 21:04       ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 21:54         ` zimoun
2020-05-29 22:11           ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-29 23:30 ` Chris Marusich
2020-05-29 23:55   ` zimoun
2020-05-30 17:13     ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-31  9:37       ` zimoun [this message]
2020-05-31 18:30         ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-31 18:51           ` zimoun
2020-05-31 19:43             ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-31 23:27               ` zimoun
2020-05-31 21:04           ` Chris Marusich
2020-06-01  0:37             ` zimoun
2020-05-30 17:02   ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-31  4:31     ` Chris Marusich
2020-05-31  9:08       ` zimoun
2020-05-31 17:50       ` Stephen Scheck
2020-05-31 18:33         ` zimoun
2020-05-31  8:24     ` zimoun
2020-05-31 10:50       ` Vincent Legoll
2020-05-31 17:58         ` zimoun

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