[IMP] stage 2: resumable, guarded, driven by the shared list
Stage 2 could rebuild one named package. It could not rebuild a hundred and
thirty-three, for reasons that were all about the driver.
The order is not re-derived: it is the closure stage 1 arrived at over four
rounds of resolver output and then confirmed by 179 builds, so it moves to
packages.sh and both stages read it. make_rootfs wipes the chroot every run,
which is what makes it reproducible and what made stage 2 unresumable --
stage2.state outlived the packages it named. Its output is now put back.
The stall guard is shared rather than copied: stage 2 needs it more, since a
test suite is the likeliest thing in a build to wait forever. Build trees are
removed after a package installs, never after it fails.
--- FR ---
L'étage 2 savait rebâtir un paquet nommé. Il ne savait pas en rebâtir cent
trente-trois, pour des raisons qui tenaient toutes au pilote.
L'ordre n'est pas réinventé : c'est la fermeture obtenue à l'étage 1 en quatre
tours de sortie du résolveur, puis confirmée par 179 constructions. Il passe
donc dans packages.sh, que les deux étages lisent. make_rootfs efface le chroot
à chaque passage — ce qui le rend reproductible et rendait l'étage 2
irreprenable, stage2.state survivant aux paquets qu'il nommait. Sa production y
est désormais réinstallée.
La garde d'immobilité est partagée plutôt que recopiée : l'étage 2 en a plus
besoin, une suite de tests étant ce qui attend le plus volontiers pour
toujours. Les arbres de compilation sont effacés après installation, jamais
après un échec.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-20 01:16:49 -04:00
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# same packages inside the chroot, and the order it needs is not a new
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# dependencies already present. Deriving a second order for stage 2 would be
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# Foundation: headers, then the C library, then the compiler chain.
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linux-api-headers glibc binutils gcc
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# Compression and crypto, needed by libarchive and curl further down.
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zlib bzip2 xz zstd lz4 openssl
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# Terminal handling: bash links against readline, readline against ncurses.
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ncurses readline
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attr acl gmp mpfr libcap bash coreutils
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# Text and file tools the build systems themselves call.
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sed grep gawk findutils diffutils file which patch
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# Archivers, then the library pacman reads packages with.
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tar gzip expat libarchive
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# Build systems.
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m4 autoconf automake libtool make pkgconf
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# pacman's network and signature stack.
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libnghttp2 libpsl curl libgpg-error libassuan gnupg gpgme
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# System skeleton: without these a rootfs has no /etc/passwd, no zones,
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# no /etc/services -- and nothing boots to a usable shell.
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filesystem iana-etc tzdata licenses shadow util-linux
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# Named by the chroot test, not guessed. Installing the repo into a
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# rootfs and entering it turned "does it work?" into a precise list:
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# - libcap needs pam; openssl needs brotli; libarchive needs libxml2
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# - pacman itself asks for systemd, pacman-mirrorlist and
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# libmakepkg-dropins
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# Sixty-eight successful builds proved none of this. One chroot did.
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# The chroot also named libselinux, and libselinux is NOT on this line,
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# all -- the clone 404s. What the chroot saw was a HOST artefact: Ubuntu
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# carries libselinux1-dev, coreutils probes for selinux/selinux.h
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# never contain. The answer is --without-selinux per package, which is
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# what Arch's own build chroot gets for free by not having the header.
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pam brotli libxml2 systemd pacman-mirrorlist libmakepkg-dropins
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# Everything above was added because a BUILD stopped. These were added
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# the check the whole bootstrap skips -- and the resolver listed exactly
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# what the repository still owes. Nothing here is speculative.
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#
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# It is the MINIMAL closure, and two measurements shaped it. Dropping the
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# python-brotli sub-package took the list from 70 unresolved names to 47
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# and removed `python` outright, with libffi, mpdecimal and gdbm behind
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# it. Dropping systemd-ukify and systemd-tests removed five more python
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# packages, and ukify cannot run on s390x at all. Both are recorded in
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# TODO.md rather than left implicit.
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#
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# An audit of the remaining names against the ARTEFACTS found two that
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# were declared and never linked: guile by make, and libisl.so by gcc.
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# Both get their declaration removed, because it should describe the
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# binary we shipped.
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#
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# Building isl instead was the first plan, and it is recorded here because
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# the reason it failed is the kind that wastes an afternoon: the Arch
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# packaging repo for isl was last touched in 2017 and its only source URL
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# is isl.gforge.inria.fr, which died with INRIA's GForge. There is nothing
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# to build. That flipped the decision -- not a change of mind, new
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# evidence.
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#
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# These will pull their own dependencies. That is expected: the resolver
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audit ca-certificates cryptsetup dbus elfutils gettext gnutls hwdata
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icu jansson kbd kmod krb5 libcap-ng libgcrypt libidn2 libksba
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libmpc libnsl libseccomp libssh2 libtirpc libunistring libusb libxcrypt
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nettle npth openldap pambase pcre2 perl pinentry sqlite tpm2-tss
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# Closure, second round. The first thirty-five pulled these in, exactly as
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# the comment above predicted, and the resolver named them just as
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# precisely.
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# THE MEASUREMENT THAT MATTERS HERE IS THE ONE THAT CHANGED ITS ANSWER.
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# Four of these were going to be avoided by dropping a sub-package --
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# sqlite-tcl, sqlite-analyzer, the openldap server, debuginfod -- on the
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# reasoning that had removed python-brotli earlier. Measured instead of
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# assumed, tcl, unixodbc and libmicrohttpd each cost ZERO new packages:
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# the closure had filled in around them. Building them is cheaper than
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# four hooks, and it does not leave sqlite shipping an sqltclsh that
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# cannot start.
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# python still costs three (libffi, mpdecimal, gdbm) and is still avoided
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# python-capng are cp313 wheels and Arch ships 3.14. Their hooks say so.
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#
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db5.3 gdbm e2fsprogs gnulib-l10n json-c keyutils p11-kit libsasl
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libsodium libtasn1 libverto lmdb popt lvm2 tcl unixodbc libmicrohttpd
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# ca-certificates-mozilla, which is the only thing here that is not a
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# library. It is the LIST OF ROOT CERTIFICATES -- ca-certificates itself
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# is only the trust machinery around it, so without this the target has a
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# trust store containing nothing, and every HTTPS verification fails.
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# curl declares ca-certificates, and pacman fetches through curl.
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#
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# It has no packaging repo of its own: the clone 404s, which
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# misleading shape that made libselinux look like a network problem. nss
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# produces it as a sub-package, so nss is what gets built, and nspr comes
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# with it.
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#
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# Measured before committing to it rather than estimated: nspr costs
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# nothing new, nss needs only nspr plus mercurial on the host, and
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# hg.mozilla.org answers from this build host (HTTP 302 in 0.3s -- worth
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# checking, since dev.gnupg.org does not answer at all and libassuan
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# needed a source change because of it).
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nspr nss
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# Closure, third round, and it is two packages. Both were pulled in by
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# what the second round added, and both cost nothing further: libffi by
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# libp11-kit, libevent by libverto.
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#
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# They are worth a line because of what they unblocked. p11-kit builds
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# into three packages, and libp11-kit's dependency on libffi was holding
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# up the whole chain ca-certificates -> ca-certificates-utils -> p11-kit
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# curl" -- four links away from the missing name, and nothing in that
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# message points at libffi.
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libffi libevent
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# Closure, fourth round -- and it closed to NOTHING, which is the point
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# worth recording. It asked for libaio and thin-provisioning-tools, both
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# wanted by lvm2 alone. thin-provisioning-tools is Rust now, so that was a
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# language runtime arriving through a fourth-order dependency.
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#
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# Nothing in the repository wants `lvm2`. Checked across every .PKGINFO:
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# cryptsetup wants device-mapper, and device-mapper is the OTHER package
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# this same source produces. Dropping the lvm2 sub-package removed both
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# entries and the Rust question with them -- see patches/pkgbuild/lvm2.sh.
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#
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# 35 packages, then 19, then 2, then 0. The closure has to be recomputed
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# after each round rather than once: lvm2 DECLARED libaio all along, and
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# the third round could not see it because lvm2 had not been built yet.
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# What STAGE 2 needs in order to exist, which is a different question from
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# what the repository needs to resolve.
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#
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# Stage 2 rebuilds everything INSIDE the stage-1 rootfs, so the tools that
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# do the rebuilding have to be in that rootfs. The resolver never asked
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# for these -- nothing in the repository depends on them -- so the closure
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# rounds could not surface them. Enumerated instead from what makepkg and
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# an autotools build actually invoke.
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#
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# makepkg runs package() under it, and refuses to run as root. bison,
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# flex, texinfo and groff are what the sources themselves call -- gcc,
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# glibc and binutils all want makeinfo, and a great many configure scripts
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# want bison.
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#
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# sudo is deliberately NOT here. makepkg needs it only for --syncdeps, and
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# stage 2 passes --nodeps, so it would be a setuid binary in the chroot
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# for no reason.
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fakeroot bison flex texinfo groff
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# git, and it is not optional: 51 of the 159 PKGBUILDs take their sources
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# from a git+https URL, and makepkg re-validates that clone even with
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# --noextract. Without git in the chroot, stage 2 can rebuild a third of
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# the repository and no more.
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#
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# Its own three: perl-error, perl-mailtools (which brings perl-timedate)
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# and zlib-ng. Measured, not guessed -- and read from the depends array
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# rather than from my own tool, which had reported `zsh` as a dependency
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# of git. It is not; the tool's regex was catching a neighbouring array.
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perl-error perl-timedate perl-mailtools zlib-ng git
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# meson and cmake, which is where python re-enters -- and the distinction
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# matters, because dropping python earlier was not a mistake.
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#
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# At stage 1 the question was what the REPOSITORY must supply: python was
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# wanted only by python-brotli and python-libseccomp, wheels that Arch's
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# own python could not load anyway, so they went and python went with them.
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# Here the question is what the BUILD ENVIRONMENT must contain, and meson
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# is written in Python. Ten of the 159 PKGBUILDs call arch-meson; four call
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# cmake. Different question, different answer.
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#
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# Measured: mpdecimal, python, ninja, python-tqdm and meson, then cmake
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# with cppdap, jsoncpp, libuv, rhash and hicolor-icon-theme behind it.
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# Nothing further.
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mpdecimal python ninja python-tqdm meson
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cppdap jsoncpp libuv rhash hicolor-icon-theme cmake
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# And finally the package manager itself, built as an Arch package.
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[FIX] stage 2: the build tools the host was providing silently
glibc rebuilt inside the chroot; binutils died on `make info-recursive`, and
makeinfo said why: its XS module was compiled against the host's perl 5.40 and
our perl is 5.42. Stage-1 texinfo cannot run in there. Everything that builds
.info documentation needs it, and it sat near the end of the list because that
is where its own dependencies are, so stage 2 hoists it.
linux-api-headers stopped earlier on `rsync: command not found` -- the kernel's
headers_install runs it. apt had put it there and a build that finds its tool
says nothing, so stage 1 never mentioned it. Its man pages come from Markdown
the git tag does not pre-render, hence --disable-md2man.
An inventory of the 110 apt packages against the chroot found 84 more such
binaries. Most are documentation; the rest wait until something needs them.
--- FR ---
glibc a été rebâti dans le chroot ; binutils est mort sur `make info-recursive`,
et makeinfo en donne la raison : son module XS a été compilé contre le perl 5.40
de l'hôte, or le nôtre est en 5.42. Le texinfo de l'étage 1 ne peut pas tourner
là-dedans. Tout ce qui bâtit de la documentation .info en dépend, et il figurait
en fin de liste, là où sont ses propres dépendances : l'étage 2 le remonte.
linux-api-headers s'était arrêté avant sur `rsync: command not found` — le
headers_install du noyau l'appelle. apt l'avait posé, et une construction qui
trouve son outil n'en dit rien : l'étage 1 ne l'a jamais mentionné. Ses pages de
manuel viennent d'un Markdown que l'étiquette git ne rend pas, d'où
--disable-md2man.
Un inventaire des 110 paquets apt face au chroot a trouvé 84 autres binaires du
même genre. La plupart sont de la documentation ; le reste attendra qu'un paquet
les réclame.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-20 01:34:41 -04:00
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# Tools the STAGE-2 CHROOT needs, which the host supplied for free.
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#
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# Stage 1 never noticed these: install_host_deps put them there with apt,
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# and a build that finds its tool does not mention it. Inside the chroot
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# there is no apt and no host, so every one of them has to exist as a
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# package -- and the first thing stage 2 tried to rebuild stopped on
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#
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# /bin/sh: line 1: rsync: command not found
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# make[1]: *** [.../Makefile:1463: headers_install] Error 127
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#
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# from linux-api-headers, the first entry in this list. xxhash is here
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# because rsync links it.
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xxhash
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rsync
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[FIX] s390x: say which machine this port targets
zlib stopped on '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx', after its own
configure had detected vector support and defined -DHAVE_S390X_VX. Both halves
were right, so it was worth measuring rather than patching:
host gcc (Ubuntu) --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16 default -march=arch11
our gcc nothing default -march=arch5
arch5 is z900, from 2000. Arch's PKGBUILD names no s390x baseline because Arch
has no s390x, so ours fell back to the oldest machine imaginable while zlib went
on detecting a CPU the compiler had been told to forget. Every distribution
picks one of these; this port had never said which, and silence chose 2000.
z13 is what Ubuntu s390x already requires, so nothing that runs today stops.
Set in two places: makepkg.conf, how this distribution is compiled, and gcc's
--with-arch, what the compiler we ship assumes with no flags at all.
--- FR ---
zlib s'est arrêté sur '__builtin_s390_vec_unpackl' requires '-mvx', après que
son propre configure avait détecté le support vectoriel et défini
-DHAVE_S390X_VX. Les deux moitiés avaient raison : il fallait mesurer, pas
rustiner.
gcc de l'hôte --with-arch=z13 --with-tune=z16 défaut -march=arch11
notre gcc rien défaut -march=arch5
arch5, c'est z900, de l'an 2000. Le PKGBUILD d'Arch ne nomme aucune base s390x
puisque Arch n'a pas de s390x : le nôtre retombait sur la machine la plus
ancienne imaginable pendant que zlib détectait un processeur qu'on avait dit au
compilateur d'oublier. Toute distribution en choisit une ; ce portage ne l'avait
jamais dit, et le silence a choisi 2000.
z13 est ce qu'Ubuntu s390x exige déjà : rien qui tourne aujourd'hui ne cesse de
tourner. Posé aux deux endroits : makepkg.conf, comment cette distribution est
compilée, et le --with-arch de gcc, ce que suppose le compilateur qu'on livre.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-21 00:23:26 -04:00
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# The rest of that same class, named by stage 2's first full pass rather
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# than guessed. 77 packages rebuilt, 57 failed, and fourteen of the
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# failures named the tool they wanted outright:
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#
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# gperf coreutils, diffutils, systemd, libseccomp
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[IMP] stage 2: resumable, guarded, driven by the shared list
Stage 2 could rebuild one named package. It could not rebuild a hundred and
thirty-three, for reasons that were all about the driver.
The order is not re-derived: it is the closure stage 1 arrived at over four
rounds of resolver output and then confirmed by 179 builds, so it moves to
packages.sh and both stages read it. make_rootfs wipes the chroot every run,
which is what makes it reproducible and what made stage 2 unresumable --
stage2.state outlived the packages it named. Its output is now put back.
The stall guard is shared rather than copied: stage 2 needs it more, since a
test suite is the likeliest thing in a build to wait forever. Build trees are
removed after a package installs, never after it fails.
--- FR ---
L'étage 2 savait rebâtir un paquet nommé. Il ne savait pas en rebâtir cent
trente-trois, pour des raisons qui tenaient toutes au pilote.
L'ordre n'est pas réinventé : c'est la fermeture obtenue à l'étage 1 en quatre
tours de sortie du résolveur, puis confirmée par 179 constructions. Il passe
donc dans packages.sh, que les deux étages lisent. make_rootfs efface le chroot
à chaque passage — ce qui le rend reproductible et rendait l'étage 2
irreprenable, stage2.state survivant aux paquets qu'il nommait. Sa production y
est désormais réinstallée.
La garde d'immobilité est partagée plutôt que recopiée : l'étage 2 en a plus
besoin, une suite de tests étant ce qui attend le plus volontiers pour
toujours. Les arbres de compilation sont effacés après installation, jamais
après un échec.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-20 01:16:49 -04:00
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