Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hi!
>> Still I hope these won't last for five more years ;-)
>
> Well I hope these will last for at least a couple of years, or at least
> this is what we should aim for.
Yes, we should aim for that while creating them. I'm possibly a bit too
eager to replace the reduced binary seed bootstrap by a scheme only
bootstrap and reduce all of our seeds even further.
> Replacing bootstrap binaries is not anecdotal as I wrote because these
> are “binary blobs” that need a special procedure to verify them; that
> they are smaller blobs is of course a crucial improvement, but it
> doesn’t change the fact that one may want to verify them.
Fully agree.
> As discussed yesterday on IRC, please also make sure make-bootstrap.scm
> does not refer to (gnu packages bootstrap) at all since that would be
> like running in circles.
Thank you. Right, that's fixed now.
> As discussed just now on IRC, we probably also need #:system
> "i686-linux" in the appropriate places such that “guix build
> bootstrap-tarballs” gives the same result on i686 and on x86_64.
I'm looking into that right now.
>> From cc3782c5f9d2c606a265be0dfdca44d79ec25622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:30:00 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mescc-tools.
>>
>> Built with
>> 5702107a31f52a615c516084b7a82d9f5e2967e0 bootstrap: Add
>> mescc-tools-static, mescc-tools-static-tarball.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (%bootstrap-mescc-tools): New variable.
>
> OK.
>
> If you want, before pushing this patch, you can first push the one
> above. From there I (and possibly others!) will run “guix build
> bootstrap-tarballs” and make sure we get the same result as you did.
Great, done. I missed
5b01b6034aeab32a5011c5757f18bd9772d3497d python: Honor '--cores=...' in
tests.
happening yesterday; so pushed as
fae3c0d953a7b0b552b4ce654ed9b5a51186f491
bootstrap: Add mescc-tools-static, mescc-tools-static-tarball.
Note you'll also need something like these three extra commits
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2d8f7e2ac bootstrap: Update %bootstrap-tarballs.
57fbf077a bootstrap: Replace %mescc-tools-seed with %bootstrap-mescc-tools.
706574ee4 bootstrap: Add %bootstrap-mescc-tools.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
from core-updates-next @ https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix to be able to
build `guix --system=i686-linux bootstrap-tarballs'. Until then, the
recipe is
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./pre-inst-env guix build --system=i686-linux mes-stripped-tarball
mescc-tools-static-tarball
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Rebuilding that right now, let's compare what we get.
Thanks for all your input!
janneke
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