From 65e15bd902f4dd6a3a1f6a87882ba73fac44defa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 19:30:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improve "guix pack -f docker" example. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Provide more concrete instructions for the "guix pack -f docker" example. --- doc/guix.texi | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 57e4846013..f90a8d4514 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5057,12 +5057,21 @@ Alternatively, you can produce a pack in the Docker image format using the following command: @example -guix pack -f docker guile emacs geiser +guix pack -f docker -S /bin=bin guile guile-readline @end example @noindent The result is a tarball that can be passed to the @command{docker load} -command. See the +command, followed by @code{docker run}: + +@example +docker load < @var{file} +docker run -ti guile-guile-readline /bin/guile +@end example + +@noindent +where @var{file} is the image returned by @var{guix pack}, and +@code{guile-guile-readline} is its ``image tag''. See the @uref{https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/load/, Docker documentation} for more information.