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bug#54394: [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from earl
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Timothy Sample |
Subject: |
bug#54394: [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:53:14 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
>
>> The next two patches spruce up the ‘gnu-bootstrap’ module. One fixes an
>> omission, and the other gets it ready to handle Gash-Utils 0.2.0, which
>> unfortunately has two module directories.
>>
>> The next three are updates. The bootar update optimistically assumes
>> that someone with access will upload the source file to the Guix mirror
>> URL: “mirror://gnu/guix/...” as was done with previous versions.
>>
>> The rest hopefully speak for themselves. Sadly, the last one is
>> something of a jumble. Originally I wanted to remove the utilities one
>> at a time, but it turns out there are interference effects. I can’t
>> remember the exact details now, but to get an idea, removing both old
>> Bash and old Grep might work, but removing one and then the other (in
>> either order) might not. Hence, many utilities get updated in one
>> commit.
>
> The patches all LGTM! I think you can push them to ‘core-updates’ if
> there are no objections.
Pushed! (Maybe I didn’t leave enough time for objections – apologies if
it ends up requiring a revert! I’ll be around to work through any
issues this might cause.)
> Then Maxim, Ricardo, or myself (I think we’re the three people who can
> do that currently) can upload bootar to ftp.gnu.org. Let us know.
Yes, please!
> It’s quite something to see these intermediate versions of Bash, Gawk,
> tar, grep, coreutils, and sed go away in the last patch, and that tells
> something about the magnitude of the work that has gone in this
> Gash-Utils release. Thumbs up, and big thanks!
When the Scheme-only bootstrap landed, it was very exciting, but it made
a real mess of ‘commencement.scm’. Since I played a part in creating
that mess, I figured I ought to work to fix it. :) I’m hoping our
Scheme-heavy approach to bootstrapping will result in something clean
and comprehensible, so taking an explicit step in that direction makes
me happy.
-- Tim
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 08/12] gnu: bzip2-mesboot: Remove package., (continued)
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 08/12] gnu: bzip2-mesboot: Remove package., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 05/12] gnu: bootar: Update to 1b., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 10/12] gnu: binutils-mesboot0: Update to 2.20.1a., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 11/12] gnu: %boot-tcc-inputs: Remove extra "gash-utils"., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 12/12] gnu: commencement: Remove many old utilities., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 09/12] gnu: sed-mesboot0: Remove package., Timothy Sample, 2022/03/14
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/16
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/03/16
- bug#54394: [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap,
Timothy Sample <=
- [bug#54394] [PATCH core-updates 00/12] Remove old GNU utilities from early bootstrap, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2022/03/20