From 63ece951168caf2e68b403b76e628e6894d92d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Bonaud <paul.bonaud@fretlink.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:56:55 +0100
Subject: volume: change base images to be able to mount /nix/store as volume

These changes will allow the nix store to be mounted as a volume and
still be able to launch a bash console with the correct nix
environment.
---
 alpine/Dockerfile | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'alpine')

diff --git a/alpine/Dockerfile b/alpine/Dockerfile
index 1b3d229..0e42345 100644
--- a/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -36,8 +36,17 @@ RUN nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-19.09-darwin nixpkgs \
 # Propagate UTF8
 # https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/599#issuecomment-153885553
 # The same is hapenning with stack2nix
-RUN nix-env -iA nixpkgs.glibcLocales \
-    && echo "export LOCALE_ARCHIVE=$(nix-env --installed --no-name --out-path --query glibc-locales)/lib/locale/locale-archive" >> ${HOME}/.profile
+RUN nix-env -iA nixpkgs.glibcLocales
+
+# < Nix context as a volume
+# We want to be able to define /nix/store as a volume
+# We thus need to "save" the current nix context to be able
+# to restore it at startup time
+RUN cp -R /nix /home/nixuser/initial-nix
+VOLUME ["/nix"]
+# Create bash profile
+COPY --chown=nixuser:nixuser files/.profile ${HOME}/.profile
+# />
 
 # Make sure to use "login" shell when running container
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/env", "bash", "-l", "-c"]
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