Re: Bootstrap binaries

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> 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.
>
> Depends on what kind of reproducibility we’re talking about.  It’s
> simple to build bootstrap binaries:
>
>   
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Bootstrapping.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries
>
> I think they are all bit-for-bit reproducible (that is, you can use
> --rounds=3 and everything is fine), except for Guile due to
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20272>.)
>
> However, if you build them today, you’ll obviously get something
> different from the bootstrap binaries we currently use, which were from
> Guile 2.0.9, libc 2.19, GCC 4.7.2, some old Coreutils, etc.
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.

It seems like a good idea, once that bug in Guile is fixed, to move over
to a new set of bootstrap binaries... even if this involves some
difficulty for Guix users today.  It would certainly be a good thing to
do before we hit 1.0, whenever that is.