bug#38390: [core-updates] Scheme-only bootstrap: merge wip-bootstrap / Starting `core-updates'

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Marius Bakke writes:

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke writes:
>>
>> Hello Marius,
>>
>>> The 'core-updates' branch is starting to look pretty good, and I am
>>> happy to report that it "works for me".  :-)
>>>
>>> Some of the big changes include:
>>
>>> I suggest that we set a "freeze" date shortly after FOSDEM to start
>>> integrating it.  Are there other branches that should be included?
>>
>>> Maybe wip-bootstrap
>>
>> Definately maybe!  I think that Timothy, Ludo and I have finally done
>> what set out to do (see https://bugs.gnu.org/38390).
>>
>> I have squashed the remaining squash-commits and freshly rebased
>> `wip-bootstrap' on core-updates, so I think that from our point of view
>> we are ready for merge.  WYDT?
>
> Excellent, really looking forward to seeing this merged!  Cutting the
> bootstrap seed down to ~60 MiB is nothing short of amazing.

Thank you!!  Pushed as e157ed72ec7b673b4204c84a7bf74f13afb44dc7
to core-updates.

And a very big thank you to Ludo' and Timothy: let's keep pushing this
bootstrapping thing forward!

> I think that with this branch merged as well as the glibc&binutils
> update from <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39456> we are ready to
> start the 'core-updates' branch.  \o/

\o/

Greetings,
janneke

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