Hi Sébastien, +CC Giacomo, who authored the oci-service-type
Sébastien Gendre <s...@k-7.ch> writes: > Hello everyone. > > I was reading the devel manual for the "oci-service-type" system > service: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html#OCI-backed-services > > And I have a question about it's behavior. > > If I define containers with this service, do a first and then a second > "guix system reconfigure": Does the container are re-created the second > time I reconfigure the system ? > > If yes, does this also re-download the image ? Or rebuild them if they > are defined with as a "oci-image" data type ? > > I try to understand how to manage the update of the OCI containers if > deployed on a Guix System via this system service. I could be wrong, but my expectation would be that the oci-service-type simply starts docker or podman, and that these applications follows their own rules w.r.t. to creating/caching the container images. Knowing a bit Docker, I wouldn't expect the images to be redownloaded and recreated from scratch every time you reconfigure. I'll let Paul confirm if my expectations are correct. -- Thanks, Maxim
