Ludovic Courtès writes: > Jookia <166...@gmail.com> 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.
