Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
> The bootstrap binaries currently consist of statically-linked > executables for 'bash', 'tar', 'xz', and 'mkdir', which are included in > the Guix source tree in the gnu/packages/bootstrap/ directory: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootstrap > > and also a few additional tarballs of statically-linked binaries > downloaded from: > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/ > > which includes guile, gcc, binutils, glibc, and a "static-binaries" > tarball with coreutils, tar, gzip, bzip2, xz, patch, sed, grep, and > gawk. > > These bootstrap binaries were generated by the code in > gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm in the past, and are rarely changed. > They are fetched/imported into the store by code in > gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm. > > The current bootstrap binaries for x86_64-linux and i686-linux were > generated in November 2013, although there is ongoing work to replace > these with a reduced set of bootstrap binaries: > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/i686-linux/20181020/ > > It is likely that our 'master' branch will be based on these reduced > bootstrap tarballs, or similar ones, within a few months. Thank you Mark, this is really helpful. My I suggest replacing the current (guix) Bootstrapping sentence ... "Note that this is a question of interest only to the curious hacker, not to the regular user, so you can shamelessly skip this section if you consider yourself a “regular user”." ... with this? Thanks, George