Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas)

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:03:34 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  [...]  
>  [...]  
> 
> This is correct.  Back then we ran into trouble with our Guix
> installation at work when someone modified permission bits on the
> bootstrap binaries, causing a rebuild of everything.  It took us a while
> to find out the cause and revert the change.
> 
> Some of the bootstrap binaries can be reproduced from source (if you
> make sure to follow the Guix recipes), but others (like Guile IIRC)
> don’t have reproducible build systems, so reproducing the exact same
> binaries without using Guix is going to be very challenging.
> 
> I don’t know if it is possible and if it would make sense to cheat,
> i.e. just lie to Guix about the hashes of the bootstrap binaries.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
> 

What about taking it a step further and having a multi-level bootstrap
process like when we have the core-updates? If we bootstrap away enough times
would we end up with the bootstrap binaries we have now?

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