Subject: [bug#31592] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add singularity.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 14:52:19 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (singularity): New variable.

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> +    (propagated-inputs
> +     `(("squashfs-tools" ,squashfs-tools)))

Could we patch the code that invokes mksquashfs to use an absolute file
name?  That way we wouldn’t need to propagate it.

> +    (home-page "https://singularity.lbl.gov/")
> +    (synopsis "Container platform")
> +    (description "Singularity is a container platform supporting a number of
> +container image formats.")

Would be nice to expound a little bit, like mentioning that it can
be used to build images, to run code from Docker images, etc.

Thanks!  :-)

Ludo’.