Howdy! zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 17:42, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: [...] >> I think ‘guix pack’ should have a ‘-r/--root’ option like ‘guix build’ >> so you can do: >> >> guix pack -r my-image -f docker foo bar baz >> >> WDYT? > > Yes, it better fits what I am more or less doing by hand. > Nice `guix pack` owns this option. Cool. Note that the advantage is the GC root, but if it’s just about creating a symlink, you can also do: ln -s $(guix pack -f docker whatever) my-symlink >> > 2. >> > Once loaded with `docker load < /gnu/store/<hash>-docker-pack.tar` >> > then `docker image ls` list all the images. The REPOSITORY and TAG are >> > not super helpful. :-) >> > It is always: profile and <hash>. >> > >> > Maybe REPOSITORY should be guix and TAG should be <short-hash>-<name>. >> > Because when one has more than 2 images, after holidays it is not >> > possible to remember or they needs to track in a separate file what it >> > is. >> >> I agree, we can do better here. :-) >> >> We could allow for user-provided names, and/or, when ‘--save-provenance’ >> is used, we could show the commit ID or something. >> >> Ideas? > > I was proposing: > guix pack -f docker -r foo > generates the file: > /gnu/store/<long-hash>-docker-pack.tar > where the symlink foo to this file and the field REPOSITORY should be > guix and the field TAG should `foo-<short-hash>` where <short-hash>` > is let say 6 characters. OK. > I do not know if it is the right way. What do people using Docker think ? Yup, I’m curious what people think best practice is! Because I don’t really qualify as a “Docker user” myself. :-) Thank you, Ludo’.
