From: elaexuotee@wilsonb.com
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:33:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2AU8F0YU6YV9A.3KVDEJ754D654@wilsonb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rmfwdfp.fsf@gnu.org>
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> 1. We can only approximate that actual profile content; storing
> an approximate ‘manifest.scm’ along with the profile would IMO be
> deceptive.
Is this a technical barrier or a pragmatic one?
If it is the former, then I don't quite grok why. I explain my reasoning in
great detail in a previous reply, but the gist is this: generating profiles is
deterministic, no? That is, given the inputs of channel revision, command line
invocation, and any referred-to external files, then `guix time-machine' is
enough to recreate a profile, no?
If the problem is of pragmatics, then at the very least I would be interested
in hearing a delineation of the challenges. I think this could be helpful for
the discussion though.
> Yeah, I think our goal is just to provide a tool to migrate from the
> “imperative” way to the declarative way. Once people have gotten
> started with manifests, they no longer need that migration tool.
Would you mind commenting on the use case that I started this thread with?
Specifically, I was trying to `guix pack' a `guix environment'. The equivalent
is straightforward for purely --ad-hoc environments but not otherwise.
Personally, I have already encountered several instances where this would have
been useful. I also think it would be just plain cool to have the ability to
pack up, containerize, and share arbitrary profiles with non-guix users.
Thoughts?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 1:40 Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files elaexuotee
2020-06-13 20:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-14 10:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-14 15:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 7:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-16 9:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 8:08 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-16 11:33 ` elaexuotee [this message]
2020-06-16 13:42 ` zimoun
2020-06-17 0:45 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-17 7:58 ` how to "guix pack" a profile? zimoun
2020-06-18 9:20 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-18 23:49 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 2:52 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 8:30 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 12:34 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 15:38 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 10:00 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 12:16 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-19 20:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-16 2:51 ` Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files George Clemmer
2020-06-16 4:27 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-17 19:09 ` George Clemmer
2020-06-16 9:38 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 14:03 ` George Clemmer
2020-06-16 15:09 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 9:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 7:54 ` zimoun
2020-06-15 10:08 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-16 9:09 ` zimoun
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