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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:34:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   Heh, of course GNU sed would itself depend on sed to build.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:36:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     By the way, minised while trivial to build isn't complete enough for autohell.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:59:35 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • nachtrabe did nothing wrong

     @nachtrabe minised entirely lacks the -i option for example.
     And not sure how but I end up with sed: can't open ^ *+ when ./configure tries to check for functions.

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     nachtrabe did nothing wrong (nachtrabe@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:59:36 JST nachtrabe did nothing wrong

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     @lanodan
     
     How do you mean complete?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 23:32:51 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     By the way, for context of the bunch of bootstrapping posts of the last few days: https://hacktivis.me/git/bootstrap-initrd/file/README.md.html
     
     As said there still very experimental and unlikely to generate on your machine (host being gentoo-musl if you're curious, once that's more settled I'll try to gain a bit of independence from that).
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 05:21:57 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Feels kind of weird to be doing a bootstrapping environment for fun while NixOS seems to be "tumbling down".
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 23:28:51 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Managed to only have tcc+musl as binary seed, as expected (that include the sources, which are all unpacked, tar nor any decompressors are bootstrapped yet), current sizes with grabbing them from gentoo-musl:

     27M /tmp/initramfs-tcc.cpio 4.5M /tmp/initramfs-tcc.cpio.xz

     Likely could get even smaller with grabbing Alpine packages (-O2 -ggdb doesn't yields the smallest binaries), and it's with both libc.so and libc.a from musl for now.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 03:31:16 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     bzip2: C compiler + make; Done
     zlib, gzip, xz: Need to improve my utilities for their autoconf setup
     
     I guess that means I might also provide bz2 archives for some of my stuff.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 18:38:58 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Got zlib (with 3+ patches, 2 for it's configure script) and pigz.
     Kind of funny that it's easier to bootstrap pigz (cc + make + zlib) than gzip (Like I'd need to get a diff implementation so it's configure script is happy…).
     
     Now I guess I need a tar implementation and I should be very close to just being able to bootstrap a regular distro.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 00:46:47 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Switched to APKs from Alpine edge for the binary seed and added a SHA512SUM of the distfiles which are now fetched. Alpine edge is of course not a stable thing but at least it now means it's not just built for my machines and probably should work for other architectures as well.

     Also even for me it's a great change because straight up unpacking the APKs with tar(1) is a pretty nice time saver.

     Here's the repository URL again now that other people should be able to play with it: https://hacktivis.me/git/bootstrap-initrd/

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:46:55 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     + cat /proc/uptime 9.38 2.99 + echo Done bootstrapping!

     Less than 10s on my laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U) while running in QEMU, neat. (And 3 wasted seconds to to "checking for wait3 that fills in rusage..." in bmake configure script)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 19:46:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Figured I could try yeeting libc.a (9.1MB) since no static executables are built while bootstrapping, went from 11MB total to 1.2MB total.
     Binary seed that's small enough it could fit on a 1.44MB floppy? Heck yeah!

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 22:58:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Heh, adapted the script for multiple architectures and x86_32 works with 128MB of RAM, while somehow on x86_64 it OOMs before even reaching init (which to be fair is tcc).

     (none)# df -h Filesystem Total Used Available Use% Mountpoint rootfs 42.20MiB 34.73MiB 7.46MiB 83% / devtmpfs 42.20MiB 0.00B 42.20MiB 0% /dev (none)# uname -a Linux (none) 6.6.29-0-lts #1-Alpine SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:10:40 +0000 i686 (none)# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 110948 kB