Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Looking at
>> <http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/3.3.5-gnu/>, I
>> can see signatures for various tarballs, but not the tarballs
>> themselves.  Am I missing something?  (For convenience, I prefer to use
>> ready-to-use tarballs, rather than patches or deblob scripts.)
>>
>> BTW, it would be nice to have them on ftp.gnu.org as well.
>
> I agree -- the reason for my initial comment was that I assumed Linux
> Libre sources were available on ftp.gnu.org.
>
> There are tarballs for later 3.3.x releases:
>
> http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/3.3.8-gnu/

Indeed.  I’ve just switched:

  
https://gitorious.org/guix/guix/commit/124b17673b71b7427714ea2acafc867cf93c367f

I agree with you that old versions will have to remain available
“forever”.  Otherwise we risk breaking the distro.

I’m sure using ftp.gnu.org with gnupload will solve that.

Ludo’.