From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Why don't "guix pack" and "guix environment" accept manifests? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:30:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87zi4lt7lh.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejN0E-0005i3-7a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:30:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejN09-0004Bu-BQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:30:58 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejN09-0004BE-3a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:30:53 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Konrad Hinsen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Konrad, > Today I tried to convert one of my Guix profiles into a Docker image,=20 > and naively tried > > =09guix pack -f docker -m my-manifest.scm > > Now I know it doesn't work, but I wonder if there is a good reason or if= =20 > this is just not implemented? I don=E2=80=99t think there=E2=80=99s a good reason. =E2=80=9Cguix pack=E2= =80=9D accepts a store item such as a profile, which may have been built from a manifest. I wouldn=E2=80=99t mind accepting a patch to add support for a manifest optio= n for =E2=80=9Cguix pack=E2=80=9D. --=20 Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net