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diff --git a/topics/guix/building-a-guix-pack-for-sharing.gmi b/topics/guix/building-a-guix-pack-for-sharing.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b82e81b --- /dev/null +++ b/topics/guix/building-a-guix-pack-for-sharing.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Building a ~guix pack~ for Environment Sharing + +## Motivation + +Sometimes, you might +* not have access to guix where you want to deploy +* not be able to run a guix shell (due to space constraints on the /gnu/store partition, etc) +* not be able to create a guix profile (due to space constraints on the /gnu/store partition, etc) +but you still need to have a similar environment for running your application. + +In such cases, ~guix pack~ can come in handy. + +I will use the process I used for +=> gnqc_py https://gitlab.com/fredmanglis/gnqc_py +for demonstration + +> guix pack -RR -S /mybin=bin -S /mylib=lib \ +> -L /home/frederick/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics \ +> python redis mariadb genenetwork-qc + +* The `-RR` option ensures `guix pack` produces relocatable[1] binaries +* The `-S` adds the symbolic links to the pack[1] +* The `-L`[2] option adds the ~guix-bioinformatics~ directory to the front of the module load path + +We then add python, redis, mariadb, and genenework-qc packages (and their dependencies) to the pack. + +## Footnotes + +=> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html +=> [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Command_002dline-Options |