Re: Building container images with nix2container

[Antoine Eiche]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

>> Does your built images contains several layers?
>
> This had recently been introduced.
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>         0cf75c9b2f23869201144917cea7f6ad49683d3d
>         AuthorDate: Tue Dec 26 03:54:12 2023 +0300
>         CommitDate: Mon Jan 8 21:04:44 2024 +0300

Thanks.

>> nix2container uses an heuristic to group store paths into layers. The
>> goal is to share common layers between images and to avoid full image
>> rebuild when only a storepath differs.
>
> Well, I have not followed on which strategy Guix relies.  What is the
> one of nix2container?  The one described here:
>
>     https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/

Yes.
But I think it could be improved by taking the nar size into account.

lewo.