From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:36:58 +1100 Message-ID: <20160224093658.GA28873@novena-choice-citizen.lan> References: <20160208104530.GA26946@crashnator.suse.cz> <87zivbxggp.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87lh6vx9v0.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160208204350.GA29053@thebird.nl> <1456268422.2159.23.camel@ghic.org> <8737sj7znl.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160224000234.GA21278@jasmine> <20160224111651.06b2c8e2@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aYVuw-0003uI-Uj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:39:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aYVur-0000gP-W0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:39:34 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::229]:37498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aYVur-0000gK-Oq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:39:29 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x229.google.com with SMTP id g62so21159894wme.0 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:39:29 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160224111651.06b2c8e2@debian-netbook> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel 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. If they were, it would solve this issue as we could build them again.