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Re: bug#46537: ‘uname -s’ from Gash-Utils-Boot returns nothing
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: bug#46537: ‘uname -s’ from Gash-Utils-Boot returns nothing |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:02:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
>>
>>> [...] Gzip saves writing “(delete 'compress-documentation)” over and
>>> over).
>>
>> We should add a pure Scheme gzip implementation, for instance using the
>> R6RS zlib implementation by Göran Weinholt in Industria.
>
> Bootar is already using that. The problem with the Industria version is
> that it only does decompression. Fortunately, there’s an easy out here.
> Gzip supports an uncompressed mode, so it would take only an hour or so
> to write a “compressor” that just copies the data into Gzip format with
> no compression. (I’m hoping that XZ can do something similar so that
> applying patches in “origin” records does not need to depend on the XZ
> we use to unpack Guile. Alternatively, we could add an option to
> compress the patched sources with Gzip.)
Oh I see. And yes, we could add an option to turn off compression or
force use of gzip.
>> Thanks! Any plan for a release? We could upgrade the package in
>> ‘core-updates’.
>
> I’ve been holding on to “gcc-mesboot” as the milestone that would
> warrant a release. On the other hand, I could try and reify the
> progress so far into an improved “commencement.scm” that still uses some
> old GNU utilities to build the last “mesboot” version of Glibc. Either
> way, it will take some time since (as you know) my attention is on
> Disarchive right now. :)
Heheh, that’s great too. :-)
Thanks!
Ludo’.