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Subject: bug#30537: Grafts vs. early bootstrapping packages
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:01:25 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>, 30537@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello,

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

>> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

[...]

>>  (define glibc-final
>>    ;; The final glibc, which embeds the statically-linked Bash built abo=
ve.
>> -  (package (inherit glibc-final-with-bootstrap-bash)
>> +  (package/inherit glibc-final-with-bootstrap-bash
>>      (name "glibc")
>>      (inputs `(("static-bash" ,static-bash-for-glibc)
>>                ,@(alist-delete
>
> We seem to be oscillating on the question of whether to graft these
> early GLIBCs.  In June 2017, I switched to using 'package/inherit' here
> in commit 13f7f2fd2b208c29361ef2290f55911879a6adf2, and in October those
> changes were reverted in commit 848f550f2c105326dc3be4033c8aaf35ec21cde4
> by Efraim, although I'm not sure why.

I doesn=E2=80=99t make sense to graft =E2=80=9Cglibc-intermediate=E2=80=9D =
because it=E2=80=99s only
used in =E2=80=98static-bash-for-glibc=E2=80=99, which statically links aga=
inst it.  The
situation is similar with the =E2=80=9C-boot0=E2=80=9D packages: they are n=
ot referenced
by the packages we use.

So I think 848f550f2c105326dc3be4033c8aaf35ec21cde4 was a good idea.
f00b85ff8d34df0a1879e593d4a85629b8586af7 does something similar.

Ludo=E2=80=99.