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| author | annalee <150648636+a-n-n-a-l-e-e@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-03-22 08:36:35 +0000 |
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| committer | annalee <150648636+a-n-n-a-l-e-e@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-03-22 08:41:52 +0000 |
| commit | 1756576c4a113275b0d54a829fab7ba2ce338f22 (patch) | |
| tree | e8d30523f8ab5b9abd0488776157983caa622a0b /maintainers/scripts | |
| parent | 75ec5287b499984b10bab424a549641172608fe6 (diff) | |
maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files: update darwin information
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| -rw-r--r-- | maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files/README.md | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files/README.md b/maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files/README.md index b55878f34192..7a1a2bef867c 100644 --- a/maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files/README.md +++ b/maintainers/scripts/bootstrap-files/README.md @@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ binaries (without the reliance on external inputs): - `bootstrap-tools`: an archive with the compiler toolchain and other helper tools enough to build the rest of the `nixpkgs`. - initial binaries needed to unpack `bootstrap-tools.*`. On `linux` - it's just `busybox`, on `darwin` it's `sh`, `bzip2`, `mkdir` and - `cpio`. These binaries can be executed directly from the store. + it's just `busybox`, on `darwin` it is unpack.nar.xz which contains + the binaries and script needed to unpack the tools. These binaries + can be executed directly from the store. These are called "bootstrap files". @@ -74,12 +75,3 @@ There are two types of bootstrap files: The `.build` job contains `/on-server/` subdirectory with binaries to be uploaded to `tarballs.nixos.org`. The files are uploaded to `tarballs.nixos.org` by writers to `S3` store. - -## TODOs - -- `pkgs/stdenv/darwin` file layout is slightly different from - `pkgs/stdenv/linux`. Once `linux` seed update becomes a routine we can - bring `darwin` in sync if it's feasible. -- `darwin` definition of `.build` `on-server/` directory layout differs - and should be updated. - |