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From: Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>
To: Simon Pugnet <simon@polaris64.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix pack: support for something similar to Nix's buildLayeredImage
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:07:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87350rpuw1.wl-hako@ultrarare.space> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qgcwd93.fsf@polaris64.net>

Hi Simon,

On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:59:02 +0800,
Simon Pugnet wrote:
>
> I'm not a Guix or Nix expert but as far as I understand Nix solves
> this problem by using "pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImage" (see
> http://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/dockertools/#ssec-pkgs-dockerTools-buildLayeredImage)
> and "streamLayeredImage". In this example, this could in theory be
> used to build a coreutils-python image where coreutils exists in its
> own layer. That would mean that the coreutils-rust image could share
> the coreutils layer, saving space.
>
> Is there any way to achieve something similar in Guix? If not then are
> there any plans to support this functionality?

It's currently not available in Guix, but there's a patch series
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62153> for it.

Thanks


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-10 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-09 12:59 guix pack: support for something similar to Nix's buildLayeredImage Simon Pugnet
2023-08-10  1:07 ` Hilton Chain [this message]
2023-08-10  7:14   ` Simon Pugnet

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