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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> Wrote down a way to distribute software using containers and tar ;)
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/DISTRIBUTE.org

Pretty cool indeed!

Recently I thought we could extract the =E2=80=98self-contained-tarball=E2=
=80=99
function you quoted and make it a bit more generic so that we can use it
for a =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 command:

  $ guix pack guix   # same as =E2=80=98make guix-binary.x86_64.tar.gz=E2=
=80=99
  /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-guix.tar.gz

  $ guix pack emacs
  /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-emacs.tar.gz

>From there, we might even be able to do something like:

  $ guix package --format=3Ddocker --entry-point=3Demacs emacs

(See <https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/image/spec/v1.md>.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.