How to pack development inputs from a package

How to pack development inputs from a package

[Reza Housseini]

Hi Guixers

From guix shell I can call

  guix shell -D -f guix.scm

Now I want to pack those into a container with guix pack, but there is
no equivalent command there, how would I achieve this, is there an
expression I could use?

Something along the way

  guix pack -f docker -e '(package->development-manifest (from-file "guix.scm"))'

Thanks for any help,
Best Reza

Re: How to pack development inputs from a package

[Ian Eure]

Hi Reza,

Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guixers
>
> From guix shell I can call
>
>   guix shell -D -f guix.scm
>
> Now I want to pack those into a container with guix pack, but 
> there is
> no equivalent command there, how would I achieve this, is there 
> an
> expression I could use?
>
> Something along the way
>
>   guix pack -f docker -e '(package->development-manifest 
>   (from-file "guix.scm"))'
>

I believe you just need to bring the package’s inputs and 
native-inputs along.  This probably isn’t quite right, but should 
be close:

    guix pack -f docker -e '(let ((pkg (from-file "guix.scm"))) 
    (append (package-inputs pkg) (package-native-inputs pkg)))'

  — Ian

Re: How to pack development inputs from a package

[Greg Hogan]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 9:47 AM Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guixers
>
> From guix shell I can call
>
>   guix shell -D -f guix.scm
>
> Now I want to pack those into a container with guix pack, but there is
> no equivalent command there, how would I achieve this, is there an
> expression I could use?
>
> Something along the way
>
>   guix pack -f docker -e '(package->development-manifest (from-file "guix.scm"))'

You have a manifest for the package, why not create a second manifest
for the container which includes guix.scm and returns the result of
package->development-manifest (or returns that concatenated with
additional useful development packages)?

Re: How to pack development inputs from a package

[Reza Housseini]

Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> writes:

Hi Ian, hi Greg

Thanks for your inputs, I tried to come up with an expression, but
failed to find one working, I got stuck with

guix pack -f docker -e '(@ (guix packages) (package-development-inputs (load "guix.scm")))'

but it does not seem to work.

I managed to make it work with an additional manifest.scm file with the
following content

(package->development-manifest (load "guix.scm"))

although I would have prefered the command line approach as I need to
call guix pack inside a script.

Thanks and all the best,
Reza


> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 9:47 AM Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guixers
>>
>> From guix shell I can call
>>
>>   guix shell -D -f guix.scm
>>
>> Now I want to pack those into a container with guix pack, but there is
>> no equivalent command there, how would I achieve this, is there an
>> expression I could use?
>>
>> Something along the way
>>
>>   guix pack -f docker -e '(package->development-manifest (from-file "guix.scm"))'
>
> You have a manifest for the package, why not create a second manifest
> for the container which includes guix.scm and returns the result of
> package->development-manifest (or returns that concatenated with
> additional useful development packages)?