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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: jbranso@dismail.de
Cc: Andy Tai <lichengtai@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix pack and flatpak
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 16:21:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YI/41kMEPQJ6tfMM@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c718f6434503d67b53f49fda57b41e58@dismail.de>

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On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:14:47AM +0000, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> At the moment, I do not believe that it can.
> 
> But it would be cool if it could...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua
> 
> P.S.  I really probably shouldn't be responding to guix emails right now.
> I'm still working on my night audit shift, and I'm so sleepy I can barely
> write a sentence.  :)
> 
> May 2, 2021 7:14 PM, "Andy Tai" <lichengtai@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > a question hopefully not too wild: Guix can generate Docker image via
> > 
> > guix pack
> > 
> > Only knowing flatpak in brief terms, can guix software bundle
> > mechanisms be used to create flatpak?
> > 
> 

I've been saving this¹ link for a while now, it shouldn't be Too Hard™
to teach 'guix pack' to export to a flatpak. I would specifically look
at the flatpak.yaml portion in the FlatpakTemplate and look through the
flatpak documentation about taking an existing directory (guix pack
--format=tarball HINT HINT) and shoving that into a flatpak.

¹ https://openbuildservice.org/2021/02/18/introducing-flatpak-builds/

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02 23:13 guix pack and flatpak Andy Tai
2021-05-03  9:14 ` jbranso
2021-05-03 13:21   ` Efraim Flashner [this message]

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