[bug#55227] [PATCH core-updates 0/8] The Full Source Bootstrap

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi!

> Starting a dive through this amazing patch series…

Yay, and thanks again for your careful review.

>> +    (source
>> +     (bootstrap-origin
>
> You can remove the ‘bootstrap-origin’ call: it’s only useful when there
> are patches or snippets.

Ah, right.  Removed.

>> +      (origin
>> +        (method url-fetch)
>> +        (uri (string-append
>> +              "https://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/20220501/";
>> +              "bootstrap-seeds-" version ".tar.gz"))
>
> You can add a mirror://gnu/guix/mirror URL and we’ll copy it to
> ftp.gnu.org.

Changed to:

       (uri (list
             (string-append 
              "mirror://gnu/guix/mirror/"
              "bootstrap-seeds-" version ".tar.gz")
             (string-append
              "https://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/20220501/";
              "bootstrap-seeds-" version ".tar.gz")))

>> +    (native-inputs `(("bootar" ,bootar)))
>
> -> (list boottar)

Ok.

>> +    (build-system trivial-build-system)
>> +    (arguments
>> +     `(#:guile ,%bootstrap-guile
>> +       #:modules ((guix build utils))
>> +       #:builder
>> +       (begin
>> +         (use-modules (guix build utils))
>> +         (let ((source (assoc-ref %build-inputs "source"))
>> +               (tar (assoc-ref %build-inputs "bootar"))
>> +               (out (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
>
> You can make it a gexp like so:
>
>   (arguments
>     (list #:guile …
>           #:builder
>           #~(begin

Ok.

>> +           #t))))
>
> You can remove the trailing #t.

Ok.

>> +    (description
>> +     "A prebuilt version of the initial bootstrap seeds.  It contains a
>
> The first thing could be a sentence, say: “This package provides
> pre-built binaries of the bootstrap seeds.”

>> +hex0-seed and an optional kaem-minimal shell.  The size of the hex0 seeds 
>> are
>> +for knight: 250 bytes, x86-linux:(357 bytes, x86_64-linux: 431 bytes, and
>                                     ^
> Extra paren.

Removed.

Greetings,
Janneke

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