Re: Why Docker instead of PodMan?

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:04:31 +0000
outlook user <RACP@outlook.fr> wrote:

> git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/docker.scm

The source code is pretty clear: it doesn't use docker to build the
'docker image'.

If you look at the history of the 'docker image format' in general (not
with a Guix focus) you can see that it probably appeared in docker and
was later standardized as 'OCI' (open container images) but many people
still (only?) know that format as 'docker images'.

So it's not surprising, and the images produced by guix should normally
also work on software like Podman for instance.

A way to make this clear would be to send patches to the documentation.

And while you're at it, there is also the same issue with 'singularity
images' which probably also work with Apptainer. Though here some
distributions already switched to Apptainer so maybe it's also worth
spending time to also add Apptainer to Guix as well, in addition to
patches to improve the documentation.

Denis.

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