Re: guix docker on gitlab-ci

[Graham Addis]

Hi Wolf,

Similar to what I was trying, which didn't work. I'll try to have a go
one evening and try and work out where I went wrong.

Thanks again. Graham

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 18:35, wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
>
> On 2023-06-05 16:37:50 +0100, Graham Addis wrote:
> > Hi Wolf,
> >
> > Not a particularly successful weekend...
> >
> > As --entry-point was used by other pack methods I thought the best
> > option would be to add a --docker-entry-point just for the docker
> > format and pass it into the build as an extra-option like for deb and
> > rpm formats.
> >
> > However I couldn't work out how to pass in a list via the
> > extra-options, so I'm a bit stuck.
> >
> > If there is anyone who knows their way around the pack scripts and can
> > point me in the right direction, that would help, but other than that
> > I'll probably get some more time next weekend.
>
> I did not try to implement this, so my guess might be completely off, but
> looking at how -S is implemented, I would suggest trying something like:
>
> 1. Introducing new %docker-format-options and friends (similar to already
>    existing %deb-format-options and friends), providing the --entry-point-arg
>    options, that would be specific to a docker format (although I am not sure 
> if
>    it needs to be specific, maybe some other formats support arguments as
>    well?).
> 2. Writing entry-point-arg-spec-option-parser, while taking inspiration from
>    symlink-spec-option-parser.  Yours would be much simpler, since you would 
> be
>    just accumulating values into a list.
>
> As for the extra-options, I guess modifying current code (by adding the 
> 'docker
> option) into something like:
>
>     (extra-options (match pack-format
>                      ('deb
>                       (list #:control-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'control-file)
>                             #:postinst-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'postinst-file)
>                             #:triggers-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'triggers-file)))
>                      ('docker
>                       (list #:entry-point-args
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'entry-point-arg)))
>                      ('rpm
>                       (list #:relocatable? relocatable?
>                             #:prein-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'prein-file)
>                             #:postin-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'postin-file)
>                             #:preun-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'preun-file)
>                             #:postun-file
>                             (process-file-arg opts 'postun-file)))
>                      (_ '())))
>
> could work?  build-docker-image already accepts a list as an #:entry-point, so
> it should be just a matter of properly composing the list.
>
> Not sure if this is helpful.
>
> W.
>
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 09:13, Graham Addis <grahamjamesaddis@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Wolf,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 22:55, wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2023-05-31 18:47:03 +0100, Graham Addis wrote:
> > > > > I could use the equivalent format for --entry-point
> > > > >
> > > > > --entry-point executable --entry-point param1 --entry-point param2
> > > > >
> > > > I think that is a reasonable idea.  Only downside is that it would not 
> > > > be
> > > > backwards compatible (since currently last --entry-point wins), however 
> > > > I am not
> > > > sure if someone actually relies on that behavior.
> > > >
> > > > Backwards compatible way would be keeping --entry-point as it is and 
> > > > introducing
> > > > new argument (--entry-point-arg) that could be used to build the 
> > > > argument list,
> > > > but I might be overthinking it :).
> > >
> > > I'll go with extending --entry-point to accept multiple values and use
> > > all of them for --format=docker and simply use the last one provided
> > > for the other formats.
> > >
> > > I'll try to put a patch together at the weekend.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all your input, it really helps.
> > >
> > > Graham
> >
>
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