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Running code from packs in containers
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Running code from packs in containers |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:21:34 +0100 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Actually there are really two approaches we could use. One is to create
>> wrappers like this one that do the right thing, independently of what
>> the user’s profile contains (‘guix package’ could even generate wrappers
>> automatically in some cases.)
>>
>> The second approach is a ‘guix run/environment’ kind of command that
>> generates the environment at run time.
>>
>> There are pros and cons to both, I think.
>
> This is just a tangent:
>
> I’ve been thinking that “guix run” (or an extension of “guix container”)
> would be great not only for running applications in containers that are
> *already* in the store, but also to run applications from tarballs that
> were generated with "guix pack“.
>
> pack=$(guix pack $(readlink -f $HOME/.guix-profile) -S /bin=bin)
> guix run --image=${pack} /bin/icecat
>
> Look, we’ve got our own container image format! :) This seems to cover
> 85% of all uses of Docker/Singularity in the field of bioinformatics.
Indeed, very good point!
> The setup to create configuration files and set environment variables so
> that the target application feels at home in the container — that all
> looks an awful lot like profile hooks to me. Maybe we can have a set of
> common hooks that we can automatically derive from package inputs?
Sounds like search paths no? Or maybe a bit of both?
Anyway, it wouldn’t cost us much so to speak, so it’s worth looking into
that.
Ludo’.
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, (continued)
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/16
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/25
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/25
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Mike Gerwitz, 2018/01/26
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/29
- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/01/29
- Running code from packs in containers,
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- Re: Running IceCat in a container, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/01/29