bug#36747: Official MesCC bootstrap binaries differ from my locally built ones

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I don’t think we explicitly discussed it, but my assumption is that
>>> we’re delaying merging of ‘core-updates’ into ‘master’ until
>>> ‘core-updates-next’ becomes ‘core-updates’.  Is this what you had in
>>> mind?  (I’m asking because ‘core-updates’ was almost entirely built
>>> IIRC.)
>>
>> My preference would be to merge 'core-updates-next' into 'core-updates',
>> or equivalently, to apply the following 3 commits to 'core-updates':
>>
>> commit d4bc93abe59e8ffcb8304050c05e727fe0230651
>> Author: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 15 15:39:30 2019 -0400
>>
>>   gnu: bootstrap: Update to the 20190815 bootstrap binaries.
>>   
>>   * gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (%bootstrap-linux-libre-headers): Update the
>>   download URL.
>>   (%bootstrap-mescc-tools, %bootstrap-mes): Update the download URL and hash.
>>
>> commit 82eaac49ac983f28768d6623d802f41cbd7f779b
>> Author: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 15 16:44:36 2019 -0400
>>
>>   gnu: bash: Unconditionally configure PGRP_PIPE for *-linux systems.
>>   
>>   * gnu/packages/patches/bash-linux-pgrp-pipe.patch: New file.
>>   * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>>   * gnu/packages/bash.scm (bash)[source]: Add the patch.
>>
>> commit 47fcdfac44c5bf236299679781133468be6f0207
>> Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 22 11:47:27 2019 +0200
>>
>>   gnu: bootstrap: Add ftp.gnu.org to '%bootstrap-base-urls'.
>>   
>>   * gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (%bootstrap-base-urls): Add
>>   ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap.
>>
>> These commits are the only difference between 'core-updates' and
>> 'core-updates-next'.
>
> OK.  The Bash change means we’re rebuilding from scratch on
> architectures, not just x86.  So I’ll probably ungraft my Ghostscript
> fix (466ff55c72959ba1499ce3ec69f534b3038eb30b) while we’re at it.

Hmm, good point.  Perhaps we should postpone the Bash fix until the next
core-updates cycle.  The problem was quite severe in bash-4.4, which
builds incorrectly on linux-5.0 or later, but the issue in bash-5.0 is
far less likely to cause problems in practice: it will build differently
on linux-2.3 or earlier.

What do you think?

>>> Also, what’s the next step for ‘wip-binaries’?
>>
>> Good question!  First, I think we should tag it with a name that
>> indicates that it was used to build the 20190815 bootstrap binaries.
>>
>> Optionally, I would advocate merging 'wip-binaries' into 'master'.
>
> Fine with me!  Could you take care of tagging and merging?

Sure, will do.

    Thanks,
      Mark