Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Jim, On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:07 PM, Jim Newsome wrote: > Thanks, looks good, and the command in your patch also works for me. > Great, thanks for testing! > I agree that passing and exposing XAUTHORITY seems better. Experimentally, > sharing the directory > read-only also works (using

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread Jim Newsome
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 5:47 PM, John Kehayias wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 05:39 PM, Jim Newsome wrote: > > > Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and > > don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. > > > > Anyways just thought

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Jim, On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 05:39 PM, Jim Newsome wrote: > Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and > don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. > > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-25 Thread John Kehayias
Hi all, On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 03:04 AM, Csepp wrote: > Jim Newsome writes: > >> Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online >> and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. >> >> Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this >>

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-22 Thread Csepp
Jim Newsome writes: > Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online > and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. > > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Jim, Jim Newsome skribis: > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser > Bundle] running with: That’s another good example, thanks for sharing! It’s especially interesting because the Tor project

re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-18 Thread Jim Newsome
Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser Bundle] running with:

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-15 Thread John Kehayias
Hi again! On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > John Kehayias skribis: > >> First, let's dive right into a big one: the popular VSCodium editor. This is >> a freely >> licensed build of VS Code: >> >>

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! John Kehayias skribis: > First, let's dive right into a big one: the popular VSCodium editor. This is > a freely licensed build of VS Code: > > > This comes in AppImage format. Downloading it and making it executable (with > a

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Ludo’ and Guixers, Before I get to some quick responses, I wanted to share some FHS container examples I've been testing. I hope others can try as I did get a response on IRC that one didn't work as expected. I think it might be when needing to expose some of the host for things like

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
Hi simon, On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 06:56 PM, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 02:32, John Kehayias > wrote: > >> Here is a current (rough!) draft. For the ease of plain text email >> I've exported from the org source to text with some light edits: > > Nice! If you can turn the

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Wojtek, Thanks for your input! On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 07:51 AM, Wojtek Kosior wrote: > Hello, > > >> Hi Guixers! >> >> I've started working on a little blog post about our new >> --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an >> FHS-like (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard)

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-09 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 02:32, John Kehayias wrote: > Here is a current (rough!) draft. For the ease of plain text email > I've exported from the org source to text with some light edits: Nice! If you can turn the draft into Markdown and format a patch for guix-artwork [1] under

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! John Kehayias skribis: > One question: what is appropriate or recommended for examples concerning > things like pre-built binaries? As an example, I had tested the FHS container > by running the Siril appimage, which has since been packaged for Guix (nice > work!). There are ones that

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, > Hi Guixers! > > I've started working on a little blog post about our new > --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an > FHS-like (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) container which has things > like /lib and /bin. > > I would like to get some suggestions on good

Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-04 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Guixers! I've started working on a little blog post about our new --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an FHS-like (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) container which has things like /lib and /bin. I would like to get some suggestions on good examples to include.