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[bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'. |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:15:39 +0200 |
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Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Also, in general, do we conflate "squashfs" and "singularity"? It has been
>>> that way in guix/scripts/pack.scm's squashfs-image before this patch already
>>> and a few extra files can't hurt, but we could also just provide a
>>> function "singularity-image" or something.
>>
>> Yes, we do conflate Singularity and Squashfs, but I think there’s no
>> other “container tool” that uses Squashfs anyway.
>
> When I originally added the squashfs support to “guix pack” I had
> Singularity in mind, but since it didn’t do anything particular for
> Singularity I named it “squashfs”.
>
> squashfs is used as a format by Snap (which we don’t explicitly support
> yet), but it is also generally useful as a way to share disk images,
> which could for example be used with lxc containers.
Oh, I didn’t know LXC and Snap support squashfs.
>> We could rename it to “singularity”, but it turns out Singularity 3.x
>> has its own image format unimaginatively called SIF, so perhaps we’re
>> better off with the status quo.
>>
>> Thoughts? Ricardo?
>
> In my opinion, going forward we should not conflate “squashfs” and
> Singularity more and eventually *add* a format handler for Singularity
> 3.x.
>
> But these changes to the “squashfs” format handler look fine to me.
> Let’s deal with Singularity 3.x later.
What about:
1. Renaming ‘squashfs’ to ‘singularity-squashfs’, and deprecating
‘squashfs’.
2. Eventually, add a ‘sif’ format for Singularity 3’s native image
format.
3. Add a ‘snap’ backend, and perhaps an ‘lxc’ backend too.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 0/2] 'guix pack --entry-point' and Singularity service, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/04
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 1/2] services: Add Singularity., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/04
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/04
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/06/05
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/05
- [bug#36093] [PATCH v2 1/2] services: Add Singularity., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/06
- [bug#36093] [PATCH v2 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/06
- bug#36093: [PATCH v2 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ludovic Courtès, 2019/06/07
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/06/07
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'.,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- [bug#36093] [PATCH 2/2] pack: Add '--entry-point'., Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/06/08
[bug#36093] [PATCH 1/2] services: Add Singularity., Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/06/05