Subject: Re: bug#64171: [PATCH 0/1] guix: pack: docker add docker-entry-point options

From: Graham Addis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:44:21 +0100

Hi Ludo,

Happy to rework it either way. I can't think of any showstoppers off
the top of my head.

Which option would make the most sense?

Thanks,

Graham

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 10:26, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Graham James Addis <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
> > This patch adds an option to guix pack to allow multiple parameters to
> > be passed to the guix pack --format=docker command.
> >
> > Currently the although the --entry-point option can be entered multiple
> > times, only the last entry is used as the docker ENTRYPOINT.
> >
> > Using the new --docker-entry-point option will take multiple entries
> > and use them in the docker ENTRYPOINT exec form.
>
> How about this alternative route: support multiple ‘--entry-point’
> arguments.  The first one is passed to the backend as #:entry-point (as
> is currently the case) and extra instances are passed as a list as
> #:entry-point-arguments.
>
> That way one could do:
>
>   guix pack -f docker guile \
>     --entry-point=bin/guile --entry-point=--version
>
> Or, perhaps even better, introduce a new ‘--entry-point-argument’ (or
> ‘-A’) option.
>
> The advantage compared to ‘--docker-entry-point’ is that it could be
> supported by all the backends.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.