Re: Guix Docker image inflation

[Stephen Scheck]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:08 PM zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> How the initial Docker image
> singularsyntax/guix-bootstrap:1.1.0-alpine-3.11 is built?
> To understand, you use the Docker image
> singularsyntax/guix-bootstrap:1.1.0-alpine-3.11 to build another
> Docker image namely guix-docker-image.tar using Guix, right?
> Well, that is not the point neither the issue. :-)
>

You can look at the Dockerfile here:
https://gitlab.com/singularsyntax-docker-hub/guix-bootstrap

It's pretty close to exactly the manual instructions for installing Guix on
a "foreign" distro on top of Alpine Linux.

Not the point, no, but how else do I obtain a seed Guix Docker image, which
I can use to birth clean, pristine
"baby" images of Guix's own making? It would be really nice if the Guix
project itself provided such an image!


> could you try that
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> GUIX_PATH=/root/.config/guix/current/bin
> $GUIX_PATH/guix pull --branch=$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME--fallback
> /root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix pull -d
> /root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix package -d
> /root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix gc
> docker commit
> /root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix package --install --fallback jq
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>


> Last, you could try to see what "guix package --list-profiles" says
> and then "guix gc --list-dead".

root@localhost /gnu/store# guix pull -d
root@localhost /gnu/store# guix package --list-profiles
/root/.config/guix/current
root@localhost /gnu/store# guix package -d
guix package: error: profile
'/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile' does not exist
root@localhost /gnu/store# guix package --list-profiles
/root/.config/guix/current
root@localhost /gnu/store# du -hs .
4.3G .
root@localhost /gnu/store# guix gc
finding garbage collector roots...
deleting garbage...
[0 MiB] deleting
'/gnu/store/x7ns2xcp8lfg24zq7gr3y8ffczn1nsxp-guix-d79c917f2-modules'
[0 MiB] deleting '/gnu/store/slwkzcmg6r1lr9a16x3krd2ax384p8wr-guix-system'
[0 MiB] deleting '/gnu/store/dzifisbdk1gwy2fw2hwzgvdnjak22awl-guix-extra'
deleting `/gnu/store/trash'
deleting unused links...
note: currently hard linking saves 1181.82 MiB
guix gc: freed 0.636 MiBs
root@localhost /gnu/store# du -hs .
4.3G .

root@localhost /gnu/store# guix gc --list-dead
finding garbage collector roots...
determining live/dead paths...
/gnu/store/0bm8h4ns6bymc7q24vhfr0dnb7qab729-guix-cli
/gnu/store/0hjjj9dppc5xvq3bfjwbsygrfyqn0rlv-guix-cli
/gnu/store/0m0xx2958fgyz8kk093afik5cn4rhrc1-guix-cli-modules
/gnu/store/0pi2jhn3a778gc3fm1l31sh07fik4zwa-guix-system-tests-modules
/gnu/store/0vwg9aqzs5xrk10vcs4dl105s3f42ilf-guix-b1affd477-modules
# Lots more listed...