Subject: Re: [bug#37401] [PATCH 1/2] pack: Provide a meaningful "repository name" for Docker.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:45:01 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Previously, images produced by 'guix pack -f docker' would always show
>> up as "profile" in the output of 'docker images'.  With this change,
>> 'docker images' shows a name constructed from the packages found in the
>> image--e.g., "bash-coreutils-grep-sed".
>
> This looks good to me, thanks!

Cool, thanks for checking!

> Just one thing to note: packages from other channels might have names
> with characters outside of a-z.  All of those would show up as dots.

Yes.

> Also, a few package names include numbers, which are probably fine to
> include.

‘canonical-repository-name’ lets digits through, that’s fine.

Ludo’.