bug#36747: Official MesCC bootstrap binaries differ from my locally built ones

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

[...]

>> I think what needs to be done is the following:
>>
>> (1) commit 78ced7975b0665e810834391d826c9f0ef7277e1 on 'wip-binaries'
>>     should be reverted, to downgrade mescc-tools to the 0.5.2 release.
>>
>> (2) The 'wip-binaries' tarballs should be uploaded to a new subdirectory
>>     of <https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/i686-linux/>, along
>>     with digital signatures, of course.  I'm talking about these in
>>     particular:
>>
>>     3e50c070a100b6bcf84c4bf5c868f9cd0a9fd1570f5d82fbfb78f8411959091b  guile-static-stripped-2.2.4-i686-linux.tar.xz
>>     1acd8f83e27d2fac311a5ca78e9bf11a9a1638b82469870d5c854c4e7afaa26a  linux-libre-headers-stripped-4.14.67-i686-linux.tar.xz
>>     021543d9bb6af55f39e68d69692e3cb74646ced2cad0bb9ac0047ef81e9d7330  mescc-tools-static-stripped-0.5.2-i686-linux.tar.xz
>>     fb32090071b39fc804fb9a7fba96f0bc5eb844a0efd268fb24c42e6bfa959de0  mes-minimal-stripped-0.19-i686-linux.tar.xz
>>     c80cdd17b0a24eebdd75570ff72c4ec06e129bd702ac008186b57f6301c448e7  static-binaries-0-i686-linux.tar.xz
>>
>> (3) The following bootstrap packages in 'core-updates' bootstrap.scm
>>     should be updated to use the new binaries above:
>>
>>      (a) %bootstrap-linux-libre-headers
>>      (b) %bootstrap-mescc-tools
>>      (c) %bootstrap-mes
>>
>> (4) Berlin should start rebuilding 'core-updates'.
>>
>> If desired, steps (3) and (4) could come before (2) if someone
>> temporarily uploads the new binaries somewhere else, and adjusts
>> '%bootstrap-base-urls' accordingly.  The key is for the hashes and file
>> names to match what we've agreed on here, as I listed in (2) above.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Thank you for the excellent summary.  I can look into adjusting the bash
> fix for 5.0, and updating the bootstrap binary URLs and hashes.  I will
> do this in a 'core-updates-next' branch.  I would also like to merge
> wip-binaries into it as a final step, unless someone has objections.
>
> Ludovic should be back in a couple of days and can hopefully take care
> of the uploads.

I haven’t quite caught up yet, but I trust you and I can upload the
files that Mark mentions above to ftp.gnu.org this time (Ricardo should
also be able to upload them, if needed.)

How can I reproduce them or fetch them?

> Ricardo: can you instruct Cuirass to add a reduced jobset for
> 'core-updates-next', that only builds builds the "core" package subset?

Should be ready now:

  https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/core-updates-next

However, evaluation fails with:

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Backtrace:
In guix/packages.scm:
  1188:25 19 (bag->derivation #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<?> ?)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29 18 (map1 (("source" #<origin ("http://fossies.org/lin?>) ?))
   592:17 17 (map1 (("bash" #<package bash-minimal@4.4.23 gnu/p?>) ?))
In guix/packages.scm:
   979:16 16 (expand-input #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<pac?> ?)
   936:16 15 (cache! #<weak-table 2/113> #<package bash-minimal@4.4?> ?)
  1255:22 14 (thunk)
  1188:25 13 (bag->derivation #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<?> ?)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29 12 (map1 (("source" #<origin "mirror://gnu/bash/bash-?>) ?))
   592:17 11 (map1 (("gcc" #<package gcc@5.5.0 gnu/packages/boo?>) ?))
In guix/packages.scm:
   979:16 10 (expand-input #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<pac?> ?)
   936:16  9 (cache! #<weak-table 2/113> #<package gcc@5.5.0 gnu/pa?> ?)
  1255:22  8 (thunk)
  1188:25  7 (bag->derivation #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<?> ?)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29  6 (map1 (("source" #<origin "mirror://gnu/gcc/gcc-5.?>) ?))
   592:17  5 (map1 (("texinfo" #<package texinfo@6.5 gnu/packag?>) ?))
In guix/packages.scm:
   979:16  4 (expand-input #<store-connection 256.99 2860c60> #<pac?> ?)
   936:16  3 (cache! #<weak-table 2/113> #<package texinfo@6.5 gnu/?> ?)
  1255:22  2 (thunk)
  1188:25  1 Exception thrown while printing backtrace:
Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &message [message: "texinfo-perl-compat.patch: patch not found"] 56ac3c0>)'.

srfi/srfi-1.scm:592:17: In procedure map1:
Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &message [message: "texinfo-perl-compat.patch: patch not found"] 51bb5c0>)'.
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Am I missing something?

Ludo’.