suggesting singularity image
smoe opened this issue · comments
I need to bring pigx-rnaseq to our HPC environment and, well, guix is not much better available than a Debian package since that old CentOS environment is a bit tricky.
What came to mind was to use Singularity - this issue could possibly collect all the requests for such an image.
We can build a Singularity image with guix pack -f squashfs.
If you don't have Singularity on the HPC cluster you could also use guix pack -RR to build a self-contained, portable tarball that can be unpacked anywhere. guix pack includes various backends that might work even on older HPC systems: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/05/faster-relocatable-packs-with-fakechroot/
Both options read very nice. I think I want to try both. Many thanks! Should have proposed this earlier :)