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Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs |
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Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:22:25 +0100 |
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Hello!
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> (This is a followup to <https://bugs.gnu.org/33038>.)
>
>> I (finally!) run “guix build bootstrap-tarballs” on ‘core-updates-next’,
>> but that was a bit silly of me since that built the x86_64-linux
>> tarballs—i.e., not the “reduced seed.”
>>
>> So I was about to re-run it with “-s i686-linux”, but I noticed the
>> following issue in (gnu packages make-bootstrap):
>>
>> (define %bootstrap-tarballs
>> ;; A single derivation containing all the bootstrap tarballs, for
>> ;; convenience.
>> (package
>
> Ah right. I saw that several times but did not use it. I think because
> initially it was of no use. It would be nice if this built everything
> we need, I agree :-)
Heheh. :-) It’s what the “Building the Bootstrap Binaries” section
describes.
> Indeed. "mes-seed" and "tinycc-seed" are remnants of the past; the only
> things we need are
OK.
>> What we would need here is something to build the things listed in
>> ‘%bootstrap-inputs’, namely:
>> ‘linux-libre-headers-stripped-4.14.26-i686-linux.tar.xz’ (easy :-)),
>> ‘mescc-tools-seed-XYZ.tar.gz’, and
>> ‘mes-stripped-0.18-0.08f04f5-i686-linux.tar.xz’
>
> So if you like, please make that change. There is only one little
> thing: I have no (scripted) recipe to create mescc-tools-seed-XYZ. But
> wait: I have a great excuse for that...I was too lazy or too sloppy.
>
> The thing is, I used to build mescc-tools-seed, mes-seed and tinycc-seed
> manually from the mes+mescc+tinycc source trees. Jeremiah Orians is
> working to remove any need for mescc-tools-seed (esp. the forward
> dependency on Mes) but I don't think we're there yet.
>
> Anyway, I think we/I will have to put some work into scripting
> mescc-tools-seed or otherwise changing the mescc-tools-boot build.
> WDYT?
I’m confused: how did you build the seeds that (gnu packages bootstrap)
refers to in ‘core-updates-next’?
The goal is for the seeds to be built through Guix so we have a
transparent and documented way to reproduce/verify them.
I could propose a patch to do that, though from what you’re saying
generating ‘mescc-tools-seed’ is not something readily doable?
>> (do we really need an x86_64 version of this Mes?).
>
> No, I don't think so. I added it esp. to get a preview and enable
> future development of pure x86_64 bootstrap; but dependency-wise we
> should be able to drop it!
Neat.
Thanks for the explanations!
Ludo’.
- Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/11/15
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Jeremiah, 2018/11/15
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/11/16
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/11/16
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/11/17
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/11/18
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/11/18
- Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 2, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/11/21
- Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 3, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/11/24
- Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, Mark H Weaver, 2018/11/16