From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: core-updates frozen! Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 09:20:26 +0100 Message-ID: <877dz4zy9h.fsf@devup.no> References: <87a741zitv.fsf@devup.no> <87eetdue65.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jI6hm-0005BY-UK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 04:20:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jI6hl-0000PM-PW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 04:20:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eetdue65.fsf@gnu.org> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> The branch currently represents 676 commits by 26 people. Some >> highlights from this round: >> >> * Guix runs natively on GNU/Hurd. >> * Guix System can be cross-compiled for foreign architectures. >> * The distribution is built with Guile 3.0. >> * GNOME 3.34 (on a separate branch, will get merged shortly). > > These are exciting changes! Let's also not forget: > > * for x86 and x86_64: another reduction of the bootstrap binary seed by > roughly %0%, to ~60MB! I knew I was forgetting something important! Thanks for the reminder. For those unaware, this means that the set of trusted binaries at the root of the package graph from which everything else derives is only 60 MiB (on i686 and x86_64). The set no longer includes GCC, binutils, or glibc! For more information, see jannekes blog post: https://www.joyofsource.com/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50.html --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAl5/CMsACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPrkuAf9HqOFpKnnmOg7wkwy3cI24uHcXxNbZudtJ/kjTFrkDmNJ0FECempuFHIo 7isU0YcbO6+IjdJaSUT0ykt/OXQ8lUdxZIuRVH0Rr5zl6GcwwTG6oyuA1Ce9K0vz ZzRkzsqsqhMAhGp8R8T/XnHCLao1kIAvIVuGF8ae/s0AyqASbe6QYACppJAOvbUO XnMGHU1WAD3QWTGZrIBh6pfGP7AYAJ+YUfsVK3xai1bNrJX6NhM1x/yPmdH04176 M0BEd7ChUxS5Q53IZrlznjLIArec3r/MjO7N4aaQWreObAtOcNGUYYV7lHEH1pg1 rClnzaZhtrqcfw8fpHBfBsLkoiyJug== =yD60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--