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Re: Bootstrap binaries
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Christopher Allan Webber |
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Re: Bootstrap binaries |
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Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:26:29 -0800 |
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> From what I understand the bootstrap binaries aren't reproducible yet.
>
> Depends on what kind of reproducibility we’re talking about. It’s
> simple to build bootstrap binaries:
>
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Bootstrapping.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries
>
> I think they are all bit-for-bit reproducible (that is, you can use
> --rounds=3 and everything is fine), except for Guile due to
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20272>.)
>
> However, if you build them today, you’ll obviously get something
> different from the bootstrap binaries we currently use, which were from
> Guile 2.0.9, libc 2.19, GCC 4.7.2, some old Coreutils, etc.
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.
It seems like a good idea, once that bug in Guile is fixed, to move over
to a new set of bootstrap binaries... even if this involves some
difficulty for Guix users today. It would certainly be a good thing to
do before we hit 1.0, whenever that is.
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, (continued)
- Re: GSoC ideas, Diane Trout, 2016/02/23
- Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Leo Famulari, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Efraim Flashner, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Jookia, 2016/02/24
- Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/25
- Re: Bootstrap binaries,
Christopher Allan Webber <=
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/26
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Jookia, 2016/02/28
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/28
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Jookia, 2016/02/28
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/29
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/29
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Diane Trout, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Thompson, David, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Diane Trout, 2016/02/24