Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-15 Thread zimoun
Dear Ricardo, > I don’t know. We could have one with R + all CRAN and bioconductor > packages that we currently offer. Ok, it seems a good start. > > - how? > > That’s easier: with “guix pack”. We would create a Cuirass job to build > a pack regularly. We’d need to add support for hooks to

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-08 Thread swedebugia
zimoun skrev: (6 januari 2019 13:09:33 CET) >Dear Mike, > >Thank you to raise this concern here. >I was aware of this thread and I do not fully agree with the arguments. >:-) >I am doing 3 comments. > > >First, from my point of view, we need to distinguish between the >"puller" and the "pusher". >

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-08 Thread swedebugia
zimoun skrev: (6 januari 2019 13:09:33 CET) >Dear Mike, > >Thank you to raise this concern here. >I was aware of this thread and I do not fully agree with the arguments. >:-) >I am doing 3 comments. > > >First, from my point of view, we need to distinguish between the >"puller" and the "pusher". >

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-06 Thread zimoun
Dear Mike, Thank you to raise this concern here. I was aware of this thread and I do not fully agree with the arguments. :-) I am doing 3 comments. First, from my point of view, we need to distinguish between the "puller" and the "pusher". And correct me if I am wrong, but one does not need an a

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-05 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 17:14:31 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > That’s easier: with “guix pack”. We would create a Cuirass job to build > a pack regularly. We’d need to add support for hooks to publish the > generated pack on DockerHub, though we could just as well host them > ourselves. Last I

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi simon, > Well, why not push to DockerHub time to time. > I agree that will attract people if Guix provide an official docker > image reachable from DockerHub. […] > Therefore: > - which tasks and which packages? I don’t know. We could have one with R + all CRAN and bioconductor packages th

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2019-01-04 Thread zimoun
Dear, I am interested by Docker images for specific tasks (scientific python, R.sumo, etc.). Around me, people are pulling a debian Docker image then feed it with some specific dockerfile to produce a R environment ready to use. And I trying to do that for some bioconductor packages about Flow Cyt

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > BTW I notice Rstudio is missing in Guix. Any reason for that? It’s here: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb/blob/master/bimsb/packages/staging.scm#L95 Problems are the use of GWT, which I haven’t been able to build from source yet. Rstudio Desktop is here

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Right. In the meantime we may want to discuss how to implement this. > Could it just be done as a specification for the Guix CI? Since this > should not be stealing resources from the build farm and thus should run > on a separate system, how can we make sure t

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:59:33PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Pjotr, > > >> But even this may not be enough for an on-demand service. It might, > >> however, be enough for a service that regularly builds packs for certain > >> common environments from packages the build farm has already

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pjotr, >> But even this may not be enough for an on-demand service. It might, >> however, be enough for a service that regularly builds packs for certain >> common environments from packages the build farm has already built. >> >> (This would be done with the squashfs backend, which is way f

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:43:42PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > A while back we fantasized about the possibility of having a web service > > that would produce “packs” of Guix packages on demand. That may allow > > us to be #1 on HN for a couple of hours ;-), b

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > A while back we fantasized about the possibility of having a web service > that would produce “packs” of Guix packages on demand. That may allow > us to be #1 on HN for a couple of hours ;-), but it would also be quite > resource-hungry (and the service itself needs t

Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pjotr Prins skribis: > I know this is not a priority right now for maintainers, but I think > it would be really useful if we provide ready-made containers for > certain packages. This will allow people who have the infrastructure > to run containers to start using reproducible Guix build