Bootstrap Sprint
Location, Date
- when: August 17-19
- where: Irill, Paris
Participants
* Helmut Grohne (rebootstrap)
* Wookey (cross toolchains/bootstrapping)
* Adam Conrad (glibc maintainer)
* Johannes Schauer (botch and bootstrap.d.o maintainer)
* Aaron Xu (mips porter) * Guillem Jover (dpkg maintainer)
Agenda
In general work out how bootstraping should operate, particularly in terms of toolchains/cross toolchains
- Make glibc stages work. With multilib
- Decide on how apt-get-able cross toolchains *should* look like:
- Package naming patterns (there are multiple ones atm)?
- Interference with native compilers? Co-installable toolchains?
- One-package-per-arch or combined?
- Cross-arch dependencies or not?
- Guillem's 'fake' cross-toolchains idea
- Discuss toolchain dependency translation (e.g. gcc-${host}).
- How to ensure that build profiles work in Jessie?
- Push into archive? (trying atm)
- Set up copy of archive for testing? (painful)
- Discuss how we add missing metadata about early bootstrap into
- package lists. One aspect is dependency translation. Another is that dependencies on build-essential are not spelled out. In bootstrap, we need an order to cross build build-essential though, so we need to know these dependencies.
- Other cross-build pieces
- What should be in cross-build-essential (or finer-grained mechanism?)
- autofoo cache data, cmake toolchain files etc. Move out of dpkg-cross?
- Document the outcome of the discussions for future reference!
Useful Links
Rebootstrap: https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap
Reboostrap Jenkins CI: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/
Crosstoolchain alioth project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/crosstoolchain/
Build Profiles Spec and patches: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec
Bootstrapability analysis: http://bootstrap.debian.net/
Bootstrap Wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap
Reports
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Acknowledgements
the sprint has been possible thanks to:
donations to the Debian project
- sponsor ...
- Irill, Paris for the Venue, and Roberto Di Cosmo for arranging it.
- etc ...