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[bug#56677] [PATCH 0/2] environment: Add --emulate-fhs option.
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John Kehayias |
Subject: |
[bug#56677] [PATCH 0/2] environment: Add --emulate-fhs option. |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 04:14:19 +0000 |
Hello Guix,
As discussed on guix-devel here (please see for more detailed discussion and
design aims): https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2022-07/msg00161.html this is
a patch to add an FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) emulation option for
environments.
The overall goal is to mimic typical GNU/Linux distributions in following FHS
(/bin, /etc, and /usr in particular) as well as a glibc that reads a global
/etc/ld.so.cache and PATH with /bin, and so on. The idea is that following
instructions for setting up a development environment, building software,
running something, and so on in "typical" Linux environments, should "just
work" with 'guix shell --container --emulate-fhs ...', provided the right
inputs and other options are set.
For testers, this can be used by using pre-inst-env (outside of the pure shell
used to build a local guix) to run guix shell with this patch. Please see the
mailing list discussion for particular examples as well.
For review, in particular:
1. On the mailing list there was discussion about the necessity or not of
glibc-for-fhs (added in the first patch). I find this useful and a big piece of
making this FHS option work, but open to discussion or if it should be a
further option.
2. Right now I used a script written to the containers /tmp/fhs.sh to generate
the ld cache, supplement $PATH (somewhat optional, but I found useful for less
tinkering), and finally launch the given command or shell. I found that when
not providing a command the prompt for /bin/sh is not the same as when not
using --emulate-fhs. So I'm not sure if this is the correct way to launch the
default /bin/sh if no command is given. Open to ideas of a better way to
implement these actions for a container start up as well.
3. This is my first time touching a guix script and the documentation, so
please do check the commit message and guix.texi.
4. I decided to link the second level FHS directories, like /usr/bin, as well
as optional ones like /lib64 (or /lib32), to the top level /bin, /lib, and so
on. These could just be bind mounted to profile/bin and so on as well, but
again tried to mimic an FHS distribution like Arch where the files only live in
one place. While perhaps making the code a little more involved, I hope this
makes the container look tidier.
I may be forgetting other elements in the implementation decisions I made, but
I have been testing these patches along the way and have gotten good usage of
them. Please test further too!
Thanks,
John
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