Re: How to pack development inputs from a package

[Ian Eure]

Hi Reza,

Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guixers
>
> From guix shell I can call
>
>   guix shell -D -f guix.scm
>
> Now I want to pack those into a container with guix pack, but 
> there is
> no equivalent command there, how would I achieve this, is there 
> an
> expression I could use?
>
> Something along the way
>
>   guix pack -f docker -e '(package->development-manifest 
>   (from-file "guix.scm"))'

I believe you just need to bring the package’s inputs and 
native-inputs along.  This probably isn’t quite right, but should 
be close:

   guix pack -f docker -e '(let ((pkg (from-file "guix.scm"))) 
   (append (package-inputs pkg) (package-native-inputs pkg)))'

 — Ian