Hi! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> How about an extension of “guix pack” that will rewrite the /gnu/store > references to a user-provided directory before bundling things up in a > tarball? I’ve thought about this (we have rewriting machinery in (guix build grafts) that we could adjust and use), but then I thought that maybe PRoot, unshare, and all the rest are good enough? > I’d *really* like to be able to just use the tarball bundle “guix > pack” produces by default, but currently deploying it requires root > access or proot shenanigans at runtime. > > How about making manual hacking with unshare and chroot obsolete by > including a simple executable in the pack that handles this rewriting > for the user…? The tarballs could include proot-static and another statically-linked program that essentially tries to call unshare(2). Would that make sense? > With that we would be one step closer to the user experience of Docker > — without having a runtime dependency on Docker. It’s also fine to use Docker when it’s available, I think. Thoughts? Ludo’.
