Re: Introducing ‘guix pack’

["Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guix!  Hello 2.2 Guilers!
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> I’d like to move support for Docker (currently in ‘guix archive’) to
>> this new command because I think it’s more appropriate: ‘guix archive’
>> is supposed to be rather low-level so it would not create a profile, for
>> instance.
>
> As of right now, ‘guix pack’ can create Docker image (‘guix archive’
> can no longer do that):
>
>   guix pack guile-next -S /opt/guile-2.2.0= -f docker
>
> I’d be grateful if someone could check with Docker that I didn’t break
> anything though.  Any takers?  :-)

I just tested it (although I'm probably not the first) and it works
(with "docker load").  Thanks!

> The archive build process is bit-reproducible too, which is pretty cool
> (Docker images created in January, 1970!).
>
> That’s it!
>
> Ludo’.