Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> Unfortunately, while I could get a shell using "docker exec ...", I had
> to start the guix-daemon manually as the shepherd service didn't seem to
> work, at least initially. Also, when I had started it, I tried
> installing a package, and there was some promising output to start off
> with, but then it failed with:
>
>   guix package: error: build failed: cloning builder process: Operation
>   not permitted

Presumably this is about clone(2) creating a child process with separate
namespaces.  At first sight I can’t think of an obvious reason why it
wouldn’t work.

Anyway, that’s great progress already, I think GuixSD containers are
useful even without guix-daemon, for the (hopefully common) case of
stateless containers.

Cheers,
Ludo’.