From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: thesis: guixsd should provide /usr/bin/env
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:11:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wppnl73s.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1v4ixeh.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:
>
>> On Thu 19 Nov 2015 16:07, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> Alternately, I am not sure if this would work but we could make a form
>>>> of "guix environment" which populates a profile that is mounted at /usr
>>>> in a container. That would allow many more non-Guix tools to run.
>>>
>>> Technically ‘guix environment --container’ could create /usr, just like
>>> it creates /bin/sh. Not sure if it’s a good idea, though.
>>
>> I think it is definitely interesting. The reason being, you might hack
>> on something or have to deploy something and it's not part of Guix --
>> you don't want to rewrite the shebang lines for files in git that aren't
>> build products. Being able to make a just-FHS-enough environment inside
>> a container sounds to me like a useful tool to have for shimming Guix
>> and the outside world, while also benefitting from Guix's reproducible
>> environments, rollbacks, isolation, and so on.
>
> Yeah, makes sense.
>
> One can already do:
>
> guix environment --container --ad-hoc coreutils \
> --expose=$(which env)=/usr/bin/env
>
> Should we add a --fhs or --/usr/bin/env option to simplify this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Would this possibly screw us up on Hurd, where container support I don't
think exists?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-29 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 9:19 thesis: guixsd should provide /usr/bin/env Andy Wingo
2015-11-17 6:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-11-19 16:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-19 17:35 ` Andy Wingo
2015-11-20 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-20 15:58 ` Andy Wingo
2016-02-17 7:31 ` 宋文武
2016-02-17 7:52 ` Jookia
2016-02-29 9:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-29 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-29 18:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-03-01 8:09 ` Andy Wingo
2016-03-01 8:11 ` Jookia
2016-03-03 17:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
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