From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Guix in Docker for automated CD/CI of complex software Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:34:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35304) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYA0w-00035k-FP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:34:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYA0v-0000My-6Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:34:26 -0500 Received: from mail-qv1-xf35.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::f35]:35743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYA0v-0000Mi-2a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:34:25 -0500 Received: by mail-qv1-xf35.google.com with SMTP id y18so2956070qve.2 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 06:34:25 -0800 (PST) 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: Hartmut Goebel Cc: Guix Devel Dear, Thank you for pointing this interesting project. On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 15:23, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 21.11.19 um 15:41 schrieb Vicente Eduardo: > > In order to achieve this I have developed a Docker image of Guix > > (https://github.com/metacall/guix) based on Alpine Linux. I work a lot > > I'm curious: Why are you not just using `guix system |docker-image` to > create the docker image directly? I have not dived into the details but I am also curious about: - how do you package? I mean where is the scheme definition of "metacall" when you do "guix build metacall ..."? - why do not use "guix pack -f docker" to generate your Docker image? I am sure that I missing a lot of details. :-) All the best, simon