On 2023-10-24 22:30:34 +0000, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that guix has [distrobox][0] packaged but it does not seem to
> work.
> 
> ```sh
> $ guix shell distrobox -- distrobox create -i ubuntu:22.04
> Image ubuntu:22.04 not found.
> Do you want to pull the image now? [Y/n]: 
> Error: short-name "ubuntu:22.04" did not resolve to an alias and no containers-registries.conf(5) was found
> ```
> 
> ```sh
> guix shell distrobox -- distrobox create -i docker.io/library/ubuntu:22.04
> Image docker.io/library/ubuntu:22.04 not found.
> Do you want to pull the image now? [Y/n]: 
> Error: open /etc/containers/policy.json: no such file or directory
> ```
> 
> From what I understand I need to properly setup podman with
> /etc/containers populated with the right configs.  I've looked around
> but I cannot find any docs or services that allows me to do that.
> Checked the mailing and IRC archives but could not find any useful
> information.  Apart from maybe podman does not work on guix.

Podman does work, but there is no built in service to configure it correctly.
Snippet from my system configuration:

    (simple-service 'subugid-config etc-service-type
                    `(("subuid" ,(plain-file "subuid" "wolf:100000:65536\n"))
                      ("subgid" ,(plain-file "subgid" "wolf:100000:65536\n"))))
    (simple-service 'containers etc-service-type
                    `(("containers/storage.conf" ,(plain-file "containers-storage.conf" "[storage]\ndriver = \"btrfs\"\n"))
                      ("containers/policy.json" ,(local-file "files/policy.json"))))

And files/policy.json:

    {
        "default": [
            {
                "type": "insecureAcceptAnything"
            }
        ],
        "transports":
        {
            "docker-daemon":
            {
                "": [{"type":"insecureAcceptAnything"}]
            }
        }
    }

After that, guix shell podman -- podman run --rm hello-world .

> 
> Has anyone got distrobox working and if so how?

No idea about distrobox, but the above should get the podman working.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> [0] https://distrobox.it/
> -- 
> s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
> 

T.

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