ok - so to steer us back on topic i can say that i tried to build blag last week using the scripts posted a few months ago on the trisquel forum - as to be expected, there were issues
the scripts are based on a fedora v20 target system and require packages from corresponding versioned repos on fedora, freedora, and also a native blag repo - the fedora archives are still available but the oldest available freedora repo is v25 so that had to be the minimum target - obviously though, the original blag repo (ftp://blag.fsf.org/200000/blag/$basearch/os/) is not available and it is anyone's guess which packages were in this that will not be available for a build today - and even if it were they may not be compatible as-is with the other v25 repos it has many inline commands to get the current fedora version of the running system - i found most of them in hopes that i could hard-code a version number but there must be others somewhere because some of the repo URLS always correspond to the version of running fedora host - so i absolutely had to build this on a fedora host of the corresponding version number as the target blag (in this case fedora v25) - i.e. so it would apparently not be possible to build blag (v.N+1) from a running blag (v.N) - i mention this because arguably this does not meet the FSDG self-hosting requirement where i last left off, i got it to progress as far as the package loading phase when it choked on a package missing from the freedora repos named something like: 'linux-kernel-firmware' - perhaps this is just a renamed package - i have not looked into it any further
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