endgame

My opinions, as a bootstrap enthusiast but someone who hasn't yet contributed all that much: ## Mirrors are necessary Upstream sources, particularly for older software, are not reliable. Every now...

> > Is `git archive` deterministic? > > Yes, for the same git version. That should be enough to get started as a way to snapshot upstream. It would be...

Unless you have very hard space requirements, I'd say that storage and RAM are both cheap enough to not worry. If you were bumping up against the addressing limits of...

I can see the appeal of stripping out blobs and files which we must regenerate, but once we do that, our source packages deviate from the published upstream and their...

I've been keeping this open to remind myself to do the mass-revision of existing releases before this goes out. Let me check if there's anything else easy that should go...

I'll not delete the branch in case people are pointing to it by name (via `source-repository-package` etc)

I'm a bit surprised; I'd hoped cosmos rsync would be a good answer when @wezm was looking for a windows rsync in another chat that I'm in. @jart Is it...

Reporting in with a possibly invalid build failure: | Item | Detail | | --- | --- | | Motherboard | ASUS P5QL-CM | | CPU | Intel Pentium Dual-Core...

Reporting a failure with `./rootfs.py -q` bootstrapping x86. The bootstrap proceeds all the way into Linux and starts building Linux versions of some utilities before failing to get `libtool-2.4.7` sources:...

Reporting another failure with `./rootfs.py -q` bootstrapping x86. The bootstrap proceeds all the way into Linux and starts building Linux versions of some utilities before failing to get `libtool-2.4.7` sources...