> Great work Diane! > > Are those bootstrapping binaries really necessary for getting Guix > going? I guess for some reason I thought if you did the whole > configure/make/etc dance it wouldn't be but maybe I'm wrong. > > Maybe this is a good step towards getting a Guix .deb we self-host on > the Guix website?
The bootstrap binaries are used to compute the hashes for Guix's initial packages which then influence all of the downstream hashes. I know that shipping sourceless binaries is against Debian policy. I do wonder if there's a way to produce the same bootstrap binaries from Debian components. Also one of your other messages suggested the /gnu directory is also against Debian policy. If there's a way resolve those things, there's probably a much better chance to get it into Debian. But other than that I think my postrm script is incomplete and certainly needs some more testing but this can certainly turn into .debs hosted by guix. Diane
