Global binaries not available by default

[hadim]

$ docker run --rm -ti ghcr.io/prefix-dev/pixi bash -c "pixi global install rsync && rsync --version"
Global environments as specified in '/root/.pixi/manifests/pixi-global.toml'
└── rsync: 3.3.0 (installed)
    └─ exposes: rsync, rsync-ssl
bash: line 1: rsync: command not found

This is because /root/.pixi/bin/ is not in the PATH by default.

What are your thoughts on making the global binaries available by default in the docker image?

A legit use case is to quickly install tools and use them in the docker image. For example, the above command is actually much faster than using the ubuntu docker image with apt update && apt install rsync.

[hadim]

Eventually we could set export PIXI_HOME=/usr/local but this might have unwanted side effects.

[pavelzw]

I think this makes sense. I don't think there is a way to append to env variables (i.e. export PATH="/root/.pixi/bin:$PATH") in Docker syntax, the only way is to overwrite it using ENV PATH=....
Before doing this, we should make sure we don't accidentally delete parts of the PATH of the base images (or add too much).

pixi-docker/.github/workflows/build.yml

Lines 42 to 63 in 1c41965

	- debian:bookworm-slim # 12
	- debian:bookworm # 12
	- debian:bullseye-slim # 11
	- debian:bullseye # 11
	- ubuntu:noble # 24.04
	- ubuntu:mantic # 23.10
	- ubuntu:jammy # 22.04
	- ubuntu:focal # 20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.3.1-base-ubuntu22.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.3.1-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.2.2-base-ubuntu22.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.2.2-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.1.1-base-ubuntu22.04
	- nvidia/cuda:12.1.1-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.8.0-base-ubuntu22.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.8.0-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.7.1-base-ubuntu22.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.7.1-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.6.2-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.4.3-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.3.1-base-ubuntu20.04
	- nvidia/cuda:11.2.2-base-ubuntu20.04

PRs are welcome

[pavelzw]

just saw this is a duplicate of #40