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   Simon Josefsson (jas@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:41:46 JST Simon Josefsson

   On Binary Distribution Rebuilds https://blog.josefsson.org/2025/03/31/on-binary-distribution-rebuilds/

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:41:46 JST Janneke

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     @jas neat. You haven't heard of https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:51:56 JST Janneke

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     @jas by rebuilding everything you need today from source you, you can cut the gcc-1 chain

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     Simon Josefsson (jas@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:59:39 JST Simon Josefsson

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     • Janneke

     @janneke Yes but achieving anything similar from within Debian seems hard to imagine, or? To me it seems simpler to explore building a smaller set of Debian packages directly from Guix binaries, which are then used to build the rest of the Debian archive, in the hopes that this incremental build process will ultimately be identical to a idempotent rebuild of Debian using itself.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:59:39 JST Janneke

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     @jas it would require a bit of work but for bootstrap packages not to depend on build-essential and only on explicitly mentioned dependencies should be doable?