Subject: [bug#55227] [PATCH core-updates 1/8] commencement: Add bootstrap-seeds.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 00:42:15 -0400

Hi Jan,

"Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <[email-masked]> writes:

> * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (bootstrap-seeds): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/commencement.scm | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
> index 9d6ed5fd08..663ffacd56 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2017 Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
> -;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
> +;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021 Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2020, 2022 Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2020 Guy Fleury Iteriteka <[email-masked]>
> @@ -266,6 +266,46 @@ (define (%boot-gash-inputs)
>      ("bootar" ,bootar)
>      ("guile" ,%bootstrap-guile)))
>  
> +(define bootstrap-seeds
> +  (package
> +    (name "bootstrap-seeds")
> +    (version "1.0.0")
> +    (source
> +     (bootstrap-origin
> +      (origin
> +        (method url-fetch)
> +        (uri (string-append
> +              "https://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/20220501/"
> +              "bootstrap-seeds-" version ".tar.gz"))

It'd be best to put the bootstrap binaries on the GNU FTP; we already
have a directory here: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/.  I can
assist with that if you need.

> +        (sha256
> +         (base32
> +          "0scz2bx8fd8c821h6y1j3x6ywgxxns7iinyn9z32dnkiacfdcpfn")))))
> +    (native-inputs `(("bootar" ,bootar)))
> +    (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")))
> +           (setenv "PATH" (string-append tar "/bin:"))
> +           (invoke "tar" "xvf" source)
> +           (mkdir-p out)
> +           (copy-recursively "bootstrap-seeds" out)
> +           #t))))

We no longer need to add #t to build phases, so you can omit it here
too.

> +    (home-page "https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds")
> +    (synopsis "The initial bootstrap seeds: 357-byte hex0 and kaem shell")
> +    (description
> +     "A prebuilt version of the initial bootstrap seeds.  It contains a
> +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

What does "for knight" mean here?  Is there an architecture called
"knight"?  You could use a @table here with the arch as first column and
size as second column.

Hope that helps,

Maxim