Re: [PATCH] Creating a docker image with Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> What happens if I invoke this command while GC is trying to delete the
>> specified path?
>
> It will do weird things, I guess.  It’s best to do this inside of “guix
> environment” as I demonstrated because while you’re in the environment
> the temporary profile is protected from GC.

But if you do “guix archive --export-docker-image=foo emacs”, then Emacs
is protected from GC for the dynamic extend of ‘with-store’ in
‘guix-archive’.

Also, in practice, the ‘list-runtime-roots’ helper will notice the file
name in the arguments to ‘guix archive’ and will make it a GC root.

So that does not introduce any difference compared to the existing
behavior, I think.

Ludo’.