Re: Introducing ‘guix pack’

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> I had it on my to-do list and Andy said he’d like to have something like
> that to publish Guile 2.2 binaries: the ‘guix pack’ command below is a
> generalization of the code that builds the Guix binary tarball¹.  It
> creates a bundle of the closure of the given packages, with a profile
> containing all the packages.
>
> Examples:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix pack guile-next
> /gnu/store/c2brwnrx0066lvf1d9hg82lvb1wkmd78-tarball.tar.lz
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix pack guile-next guix
> /gnu/store/kc6bxqwrf9z2vvxwndhw8s39s39h5mz6-tarball.tar.lz
> $ tar tvf /gnu/store/kc6bxqwrf9z2vvxwndhw8s39s39h5mz6-tarball.tar.lz|grep 
> /bin/gui[lx]
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      2974 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/060piiiz4nmb51jc3wk01bgikajrnfjd-guile-2.0.13/bin/guild
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root     13472 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/060piiiz4nmb51jc3wk01bgikajrnfjd-guile-2.0.13/bin/guile
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      7008 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/060piiiz4nmb51jc3wk01bgikajrnfjd-guile-2.0.13/bin/guile-config
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      3050 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/060piiiz4nmb51jc3wk01bgikajrnfjd-guile-2.0.13/bin/guile-snarf
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/060piiiz4nmb51jc3wk01bgikajrnfjd-guile-2.0.13/bin/guile-tools -> 
> guild
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      2978 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guild
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root     12784 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      7022 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-config
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root      3072 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-snarf
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-tools 
> -> guild
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root       744 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/6xlybn33znrp4nyvy39wbrwjrl8l9qnd-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/bin/guix
> -r-xr-xr-x root/root    933120 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/6xlybn33znrp4nyvy39wbrwjrl8l9qnd-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/bin/guix-daemon
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guild -> 
> /gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guild
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guile -> 
> /gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guile-config -> 
> /gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-config
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guile-snarf -> 
> /gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-snarf
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guile-tools -> 
> /gnu/store/62hqgi4cac0f70v1ycsvv985fl3l1hzr-guile-next-2.1.7/bin/guile-tools
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guix -> 
> /gnu/store/6xlybn33znrp4nyvy39wbrwjrl8l9qnd-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/bin/guix
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1970-01-01 01:00 
> ./gnu/store/ynafk7v924xil993dqbx4mxxnm9ifsi6-profile/bin/guix-daemon -> 
> /gnu/store/6xlybn33znrp4nyvy39wbrwjrl8l9qnd-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/bin/guix-daemon
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Very nice!

> I’d like to move support for Docker (currently in ‘guix archive’) to
> this new command because I think it’s more appropriate: ‘guix archive’
> is supposed to be rather low-level so it would not create a profile, for
> instance.
>
> Ricardo, WDYT?

Sounds good to me!

-- 
Ricardo

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