Excuse my mistake in missing the definition of binary seed mentioned here "opaque ascii or binary seeds that are injected during build time." Disregard that part.
On 9/24/21 2:35 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > Hello! > > I'm confused about fundamental definitions from the manual. > >> Possibly one of the most harmless, but certainly by far the biggest binary >> seed that all software distributions inject are the so [called] bootstrap >> binary seed. Bootstrap binaries are the initial binary seeds that are used >> to start building the distribution. -- >> https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/html_node/Bootstrappable-Builds.html > > This definition of bootstrap binary seeds confused me because > > - "Binary seed" itself is not defined. After some searching, my understanding > is that this is a verified binary you inject among source code to produce > more software. Is that correct? > - it switches from singular to plural form. "The biggest binary seed is the > bootstrap binary seed", followed by "Bootstrap binaries are the initial > binary seeds." How do these sentences reconcile? > > Also, in reading section 1.4 I didn't come away knowing what a full source > bootstrap even is. Does that mean you reproduce the hex0 binary, and then use > progressive stages to eventually reproduce the source code for a version of > Guix? Or does it mean that you reproduce an exact disk image for an OS for > the same CPU architecture as the hex program, with a copy of the Guix source > ready to go on that system?
