Re: guix pack: support for something similar to Nix's buildLayeredImage

[Simon Pugnet]

Hi Hilton,

Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:59:02 +0800,
> Simon Pugnet wrote:
> > I'm not a Guix or Nix expert but as far as I understand Nix solves
> > this problem by using "pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImage" (see
> > http://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/dockertools/#ssec-pkgs-dockerTools-buildLayeredImage)
> > and "streamLayeredImage". In this example, this could in theory be
> > used to build a coreutils-python image where coreutils exists in 
> > its
> > own layer. That would mean that the coreutils-rust image could 
> > share
> > the coreutils layer, saving space.
> >
> > Is there any way to achieve something similar in Guix? If not then 
> > are
> > there any plans to support this functionality?
>
> It's currently not available in Guix, but there's a patch series
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62153> for it.
>
> Thanks

Excellent, thanks for pointing that out, and sorry for missing it in 
my searches!

Kind regards,

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