Hi, On dim., 12 févr. 2023 at 16:39, Benton Edmondson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I see under <https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Guix-Containers.html> > that it is possible to imperatively run programs in their own container. Is > it possible to do this declaratively? In other words, can I create a > derivation which generates a Guix Container, which I could then put in a > manifest? I read around but didn't see documentation on this.
This example from the mentioned Cookbook, $ guix shell --container --network --manifest=manifest.scm -- R is declarative, no? Well, the profile is not “containerized”, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix shell hello coreutils (env) $ echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT /gnu/store/d5pz9lmmi9zr7l6zpj6z6708vsrwwv29-profile $ guix shell hello coreutils --container [env]$ echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT /gnu/store/d5pz9lmmi9zr7l6zpj6z6708vsrwwv29-profile --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and the container is created on the fly, then populated by the profile. You are asking for another feature, IIUC, as described previously in [1,2] and I guess you would like [3]. :-) 1: https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected] 2: https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected] 3: https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected] Or maybe you could be interested by: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2017/running-system-services-in-containers/ Cheers, simon
