Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement? by Sir_Cmpwn on Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:38AM (#12936766)

A self-hosting static Linux distro, with pacman. It's bloody hard to bootstrap a Linux userspace from scratch in general, but when you add that you want everything to be static it just gets stupidly difficult. I'll try again at some point with another strategy, it'll be the fourth such attempt.

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Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement? by faddat on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:02AM (#12936826)

Not certain I could implement.

Certain I'd like to talk with you about your strategy and see if we can get any closer than you did the past three times.

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Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement? by Sir_Cmpwn on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:08AM (#12936845)

This is my current best effort: https://gogs.sr.ht/SirCmpwn/sconix

I was trying to build a clean static system I could use as a bootstrap to build clean packages from. Ran into trouble with things like coreutils, util-linux, and fakeroot. Making things harder is that I'm building everything against musl libc because glibc doesn't handle static linking well (and also because I don't like glibc).

I'm thinking a better strategy might be to use some other host system with pacman to build a base system of clean static packages, then use pacstrap to get this system up and running.

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