From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Why don't "guix pack" and "guix environment" accept manifests? Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:20:40 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej3B0-0002wn-Gn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:20:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej3Av-0001cM-U3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:20:46 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:57065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej3Av-0001bq-Me for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:20:41 -0500 Content-Language: en-US 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi everyone, Today I tried to convert one of my Guix profiles into a Docker image, and naively tried guix 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 this is just not implemented? The same question applies to "guix environment". Maybe even "guix build", although I don't see a use case for that. But I'd expect to be able to use a manifest wherever a list of packages is required. Konrad.