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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index d37d63066f..bd0f3e8fd5 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4866,6 +4866,29 @@ advantage to work without requiring special kernel support, but it incurs run-time overhead every time a system call is made. @end quotation +@cindex entry point, for Docker images +@item --entry-point=@var{command} +Use @var{command} as the @dfn{entry point} of the resulting pack, if the pack +format supports it---currently @code{docker} and @code{squashfs} (Singularity) +support it. @var{command} must be relative to the profile contained in the +pack. + +The entry point specifies the command that tools like @code{docker run} or +@code{singularity run} automatically start by default. For example, you can +do: + +@example +guix pack -f docker --entry-point=bin/guile guile +@end example + +The resulting pack can easily be loaded and @code{docker run} with no extra +arguments will spawn @code{bin/guile}: + +@example +docker load -i pack.tar.gz +docker run @var{image-id} +@end example + @item --expression=@var{expr} @itemx -e @var{expr} Consider the package @var{expr} evaluates to. |