dockerTools.examples.nix: fix documentation example #49255
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The given example does not evaluate. This commit updates it to a command that works.
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CC @nlewo is this what you were going for in the example? It looks like the nix tools are not usable in the container anyways, for want of build users -- but this at least gets you into the container and lets you poke around at the filesystem with the store. |
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@bhipple what is exactly not working? Because we can query the Nix database (see the test |
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| # 6. nix example to play with the container nix store | |||
| # docker run -it --rm nix nix-store -qR $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A nix) | |||
| # docker load < $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A dockerTools.examples.nix) | |||
| # docker run -it --rm nix /bin/bash | |||
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This no longer checks the database is well initialized. In fact, to run this command, the dockerTools.buildImage function is sufficient.
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Hmm, for some reason the command was showing up as syntactically invalid when I tried to run it previously, but running it now it works just fine. Must've had something wrong with my zsh environment; sorry for the confusion. |
The given example does not evaluate. This commit updates it to a command that works.