The fixed-point project

2013-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Our wonderful manual, under “Building the Bootstrap Binaries” [0], questions when we reach fixed point. I rebuilt the bootstrap binaries in an attempt to answer that question. Basically, after two runs I got the bit-for-bit identical tarball for Binutils, but the other 4 tarballs differed

Re: The fixed-point project

2013-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Thanks again to Christian for insisting ;-) and for the enlightening > discussions we’ve had, and to Mark H. Weaver for pushing some more. ... and I forgot to thank Andreas for his insightful comments in Paris and afterward. Ludo’. pgpXkc6Tgy2Cl.pgp De

Re: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--list-generations'.

2013-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >>> Can I push the attached patch to ‘master’? > >> Yep! > > Done. Great, thank you! Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--list-generations'.

2013-09-19 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> That’s not necessarily a bug: it could be that generation 1 is just > slightly more than 48 hours old (the time should also be displayed, I > think.) Right, that’s what I was trying to show. Anyway, it shouldn’t be an issue now. OK, I added ‘~T’. > This should be present tense overall (for ex

Re: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--list-generations'.

2013-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> Ah so I was referring to recutils record sets (I thought you were >> talking about SRFI-9 records or something.) So what’s the question? >> :-) > > I was trying to explain why we shouldn’t always output generations in > the recutils format. It works for ‘--search’