guix pack and flatpak

guix pack and flatpak

[Andy Tai]

a question hopefully not too wild:   Guix can generate Docker image via

guix pack

Only knowing flatpak in brief terms, can guix software bundle
mechanisms be used to create flatpak?



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Re: guix pack and flatpak

[jbranso]

At the moment, I do not believe that it can.

But it would be cool if it could...

Thanks,

Joshua

P.S.  I really probably shouldn't be responding to guix emails right now.
I'm still working on my night audit shift, and I'm so sleepy I can barely
write a sentence.  :)

May 2, 2021 7:14 PM, "Andy Tai" <lichengtai@gmail.com> wrote:

> a question hopefully not too wild: Guix can generate Docker image via
> 
> guix pack
> 
> Only knowing flatpak in brief terms, can guix software bundle
> mechanisms be used to create flatpak?
> 
> -- 
> Andy Tai, atai@atai.org
> Year 2021 民國110年
> 自動的精神力是信仰與覺悟
> 自動的行為力是勞動與技能

Re: guix pack and flatpak

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:14:47AM +0000, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> At the moment, I do not believe that it can.
> 
> But it would be cool if it could...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua
> 
> P.S.  I really probably shouldn't be responding to guix emails right now.
> I'm still working on my night audit shift, and I'm so sleepy I can barely
> write a sentence.  :)
> 
> May 2, 2021 7:14 PM, "Andy Tai" <lichengtai@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > a question hopefully not too wild: Guix can generate Docker image via
> > 
> > guix pack
> > 
> > Only knowing flatpak in brief terms, can guix software bundle
> > mechanisms be used to create flatpak?
> > 
> 

I've been saving this¹ link for a while now, it shouldn't be Too Hard™
to teach 'guix pack' to export to a flatpak. I would specifically look
at the flatpak.yaml portion in the FlatpakTemplate and look through the
flatpak documentation about taking an existing directory (guix pack
--format=tarball HINT HINT) and shoving that into a flatpak.

¹ https://openbuildservice.org/2021/02/18/introducing-flatpak-builds/

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