Re: guix pack: support for something similar to Nix's buildLayeredImage

[Simon Pugnet <simon@polaris64.net>]

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Hi Hilton,

Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> writes:

> 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

Excellent, thanks for pointing that out, and sorry for missing it in 
my searches!

Kind regards,

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