Re: guix pack: support for something similar to Nix's buildLayeredImage

[Simon Pugnet]

Hi Hilton,

Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> writes:

Hi Simon,

On Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:59:02 +0800,
Simon Pugnet wrote:

I'm not a Guix or Nix expert but as far as I understand Nix solves
this problem by using "pkgs.dockerTools.buildLayeredImage" (see
http://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/dockertools/#ssec-pkgs-dockerTools-buildLayeredImage)
and "streamLayeredImage". In this example, this could in theory be

the coreutils layer, saving space.


there any plans to support this functionality?

used to build a coreutils-python image where coreutils exists in its own layer. That would mean that the coreutils-rust image could share Is there any way to achieve something similar in Guix? If not then are

It's currently not available in Guix, but there's a patch series
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62153> for it.

Thanks

Kind regards,

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