Hi, Michal Atlas <michal_atlas+...@posteo.net> skribis:
> I greatly agree, it would be an awesome QOL improvement. If there’s consensus, let’s see how we can get that done. The advantage of having (guix docker) & co. all in Scheme is that moving it from a derivation to code running straight from ‘guix pack’ is definitely feasible (a bit of work though because ‘guix pack’ has quite a few backends). > Just want to mention that it might be nice to take inspiration from > the Nix dockerTools, since they already have quite a lot of effort put > into this. > > Including for example an option called `streamLayeredImage` [1] which > doesn't generate a tarball at all, but rather a script that outputs > the layers without assembling them, in a format which Docker or Podman > can import without the huge intermediary file. > > i.e. $(guix pack ...) | docker load > > [1]: > https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/dockertools/#ssec-pkgs-dockerTools-streamLayeredImage Nice! Sounds very much in line with what Ricardo was proposing. > Also seems that Nix's way only quickly imports the changed layers? And > Guix's always imports the whole thing, at least I think? What do you mean by “imports the whole thing”? Thanks, Ludo’.
