The #GNU #Guix package graph is now rooted in a further reduced set of binary seeds, at about 60 MiB it weighs 25% of what it used to
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/
How #bootstrappable is your distro?
Doesn't look like #Lilypond will be in #Debian #bullseye .
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lilypond
A shame. I suppose it will probably be in backports.
“Bootstrappable builds”:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/841797/6742a0742f6160ef
LWN reports on what @janneke et al. have been up to, including the very latest breakthrough!
Check out what's been happening during the last month in the world of @reproducible_builds https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-12/ @conservancy #nixos @debian @CCTG @microg
“Update from Guix: Moving forward into 2021”:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/update-from-guix-moving-forward-into-2021
It’s never too late to donate. :-)
Thanks to @fsf for supporting #GNU #Guix as part of the Working Together for Free Software initiative!
Did you know that the FSF has a PeerTube account? PeerTube is a decentralized, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent. Subscribe to our page today: https://u.fsf.org/36m
News from the Right to Repair movement, helping farmers protect their right to fix their own farm equipment without facing legal repercussions: https://u.fsf.org/38u
compiled some press links around MNT Reform into a list https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html#mnt-reform-in-the-media if you have more, send link
We closed the gap between Stage0 and #GNU Mes: the Full Source Bootstrap is near!
The package graph is now rooted in hex0, a #357-byte binary & ASCII-equivalent https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/master/POSIX/x86/hex0_x86.hex0
Make your distro #bootstrappable!
@fsf
@conservancy
@fsfe
@nixos
#reprobuilds #gnutools #NLnetFDN
If you’ve had troubles setting up #Guix offloading in the past, in particular to a “foreign distro”, this change should simplify things:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45312
“Identical files across subsequent package revisions”:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-12/msg00258.html
Estimating how much data is identical between subsequent revisions of a package, with an eye towards optimizing substitute downloads.
Say you want to test the effect of a libc patch on LibreOffice:
guix build libreoffice --with-patch=glibc=./my-glibc-tweak.patch
Granted, this example would contribute a fair deal to global warming, but the point is that this new option makes it easy to test patches:
The Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap*) is coming to ARM: The #bootstrappable fork of tinycc now builds on @GuixHPC's wip-arm-bootstrap (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-arm-bootstrap) branch:
07:14:46 janneke@overdrive1:~/src/guix/wip-arm-bootstrap [env]
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --system=armhf-linux \
-e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot))'
/gnu/store/7sg2q1icj4zhbfz12zb7yg9hswqf74yw-tcc-boot-0.9.27
Next up: @gnutools' gcc-2.95.3.
@ReproBuilds @NLnetFDN @fsf
*) See https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/
Hear hear, #GNU #Guix is 8 years old *and* version 1.2.0 is out today!
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released/
Do not miss the release song and all the niceties!
Guix 1.2.0 is out! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released/
Lovely release art... but also! An incredible release song (!!!) by Ricardo Wurmus! https://guix.gnu.org/audio/ode-to-one-two-oh.ogg
Chickadee 0.6.0 released https://dthompson.us/chickadee-060-released.html
got some cool stuff like ttf/otf font loading via freetype and an initial version of a 2D vector graphics system a la svg or html5 canvas.
The online #Guix Day #conference will take place on Sunday, November 22, and you can now watch the pre-recorded talks.
WATCH THEM NOW!
Or when you have time, until the 21. We will not have a dedicated time to watch them together on Sunday, instead we will have an extended Q&A of 25 (!) minutes for each subject.
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-2/
We just compiled the first working program using a Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap'ped*) TinyCC for ARM:
21:55:01 janneke@banana:~/src/tinycc [env]
$ ./mes-tcc-hello
Hello, Mescc!
[42]
@GuixHPC @ReproBuilds @NLnetFDN @fsf
*) See https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/
Hey! #GNU #Guix 1.2.0rc1 (release candidate, “beta”) is available for testing!
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00277.html
Help us improve it!
OMG, @mairin is about to keynote at @SeaGL !!! https://seagl.org/watch/
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