[bug#52550] [PATCH 00/10] Further work on the image API.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

> This series contains further work on the image API that I have postponed for
> over a year. In short:
>
> * The guix system image command now supports the docker image type, which
>   means that the docker-image command is deprecated.
>
> * The docker images are not created in a VM (not needed), which results in a
>   creation speedup of around 6 times: 3 minutes vs 19 minutes for a simple
>   docker image on my x86 machine.
>
> * Most of the (gnu build vm) and (gnu system vm) code is removed. This is code
>   was largely duplicated in (gnu build image) and (gnu system image). We now
>   have a single entry point for creating images, that is faster, more robust
>   and portable.
>
> * I have added a "volatile?" flag to the <virtual-machine> record so that the
>   system tests can use a persistent or a volatile storage. I have adapted the
>   docker tests to use persistent storage. This means that those tests that
>   have been broken for a long time are now fixed.

This is great.  I didn’t try to run the code but I did look at the
patches and it LGTM.

>  gnu/build/vm.scm         | 500 ----------------------------------

Bye bye vm.scm, you were one of the oldest Guix System files.

>  12 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 1084 deletions(-)

I like that.  :-)

Thank you!

Ludo’.