Glad to have contributed :)
From: Ludovic Courtès
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:38 PM
To: Josh Marshall
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: Modifying squashfs usage for `guix pack` for
supporting singularity
Hi Josh,
Josh Marshall
Hi Josh,
Josh Marshall skribis:
> While the images seem to work well in most cases, removing ways for bits to
> change seems to be in the spirit of guix, and so the "-all-time" and
> "-mkfs-time" options remove one source of change. Additionally, without the
> "--no-recovery" an extra file i
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From: Ludovic Courtès
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:39 PM
To: Josh Marshall
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: Modifying squashfs usage for `guix pack` for
supporting singularity
Hi Josh,
Josh Marshall skribis:
> Thanks for getting back to me on this.
>
> For
Hi Josh,
Josh Marshall skribis:
> Thanks for getting back to me on this.
>
> For the options I mentioned in the email, and the one not yet tracked
> in email since it is only in IRC is "--no-recovery". These are what
> stood out to me when reading the `mksquashfs` documentation (
> https://gith
ner format
working on CentOS7, and applying some changes to more correctly use
`mksquashfs`.
From: Ludovic Courtès
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:51 AM
To: Josh Marshall
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Modifying squashfs usage for `guix
Hi Josh,
Apologies for the delay! (In general, it’s probably safer to report
bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org because they’re tracked and are less likely to
fall through the cracks.)
Josh Marshall skribis:
> I ran into some trouble today when trying to package an image for singularity
> on CentOS7.
favor of this standard:
https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec
From: Josh Marshall
Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 4:00 PM
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Modifying squashfs usage for `guix pack` for supporting singularity
I ran into some trouble today
I ran into some trouble today when trying to package an image for singularity
on CentOS7. nxck suggested I go into the cdoe and try adding the "-noappend"
option to mksquashfs in 'guix/guix/scripts/pack.scm'. While looking at it, it
seems that it performs a multistep process to modify the squa
