Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Thu 19 Nov 2015 16:07, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>>> Alternately, I am not sure if this would work but we could make a form
>>> of "guix environment" which populates a profile that is mounted at /usr
>>> in a container. That would allow many more non-Guix tools to run.
>>
>> Technically ‘guix environment --container’ could create /usr, just like
>> it creates /bin/sh. Not sure if it’s a good idea, though.
>
> I think it is definitely interesting. The reason being, you might hack
> on something or have to deploy something and it's not part of Guix --
> you don't want to rewrite the shebang lines for files in git that aren't
> build products. Being able to make a just-FHS-enough environment inside
> a container sounds to me like a useful tool to have for shimming Guix
> and the outside world, while also benefitting from Guix's reproducible
> environments, rollbacks, isolation, and so on.
Yeah, makes sense.
One can already do:
guix environment --container --ad-hoc coreutils \
--expose=$(which env)=/usr/bin/env
Should we add a --fhs or --/usr/bin/env option to simplify this?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
