#!/usr/bin/env bash # The package list, and the ORDER, shared by both stages. # # It lived in build-stage1.sh until stage 2 needed it. Stage 2 rebuilds the # same packages inside the chroot, and the order it needs is not a new # question: this one is the actual dependency closure, arrived at over four # rounds of resolver output (35 unsatisfied, then 19, then 2, then none) and # then confirmed by a hundred and ninety builds that each found their # dependencies already present. Deriving a second order for stage 2 would be # re-deriving a fact this file already holds -- and getting it subtly wrong # would show up as a build failure attributed to the package rather than to # the ordering. # # Sourced, never executed. Both stages read STAGE1_PACKAGES from here. STAGE1_PACKAGES=( # Foundation: headers, then the C library, then the compiler chain. linux-api-headers glibc binutils gcc # Compression and crypto, needed by libarchive and curl further down. zlib bzip2 xz zstd lz4 openssl # Terminal handling: bash links against readline, readline against ncurses. ncurses readline # The shell, and the coreutils prerequisites Arch declares. attr acl gmp mpfr libcap bash coreutils # Text and file tools the build systems themselves call. sed grep gawk findutils diffutils file which patch # Archivers, then the library pacman reads packages with. tar gzip expat libarchive # Build systems. m4 autoconf automake libtool make pkgconf # pacman's network and signature stack. libnghttp2 libpsl curl libgpg-error libassuan gnupg gpgme # System skeleton: without these a rootfs has no /etc/passwd, no zones, # no /etc/services -- and nothing boots to a usable shell. filesystem iana-etc tzdata licenses shadow util-linux # Named by the chroot test, not guessed. Installing the repo into a # rootfs and entering it turned "does it work?" into a precise list: # - libcap needs pam; openssl needs brotli; libarchive needs libxml2 # - pacman itself asks for systemd, pacman-mirrorlist and # libmakepkg-dropins # Sixty-eight successful builds proved none of this. One chroot did. # # The chroot also named libselinux, and libselinux is NOT on this line, # because that reading of it was wrong. Arch has no libselinux package at # all -- the clone 404s. What the chroot saw was a HOST artefact: Ubuntu # carries libselinux1-dev, coreutils probes for selinux/selinux.h # unconditionally, and ours came out linked to a library the target will # never contain. The answer is --without-selinux per package, which is # what Arch's own build chroot gets for free by not having the header. pam brotli libxml2 systemd pacman-mirrorlist libmakepkg-dropins # The closure, named by pacman's own resolver rather than guessed. # # Everything above was added because a BUILD stopped. These were added # because scripts/test-chroot.sh ran `pacman -Syp` with --nodeps OFF -- # the check the whole bootstrap skips -- and the resolver listed exactly # what the repository still owes. Nothing here is speculative. # # It is the MINIMAL closure, and two measurements shaped it. Dropping the # python-brotli sub-package took the list from 70 unresolved names to 47 # and removed `python` outright, with libffi, mpdecimal and gdbm behind # it. Dropping systemd-ukify and systemd-tests removed five more python # packages, and ukify cannot run on s390x at all. Both are recorded in # TODO.md rather than left implicit. # # An audit of the remaining names against the ARTEFACTS found two that # were declared and never linked: guile by make, and libisl.so by gcc. # Both get their declaration removed, because it should describe the # binary we shipped. # # Building isl instead was the first plan, and it is recorded here because # the reason it failed is the kind that wastes an afternoon: the Arch # packaging repo for isl was last touched in 2017 and its only source URL # is isl.gforge.inria.fr, which died with INRIA's GForge. There is nothing # to build. That flipped the decision -- not a change of mind, new # evidence. # # These will pull their own dependencies. That is expected: the resolver # will name the next round as precisely as it named this one. audit ca-certificates cryptsetup dbus elfutils gettext gnutls hwdata icu jansson kbd kmod krb5 libcap-ng libgcrypt libidn2 libksba libmpc libnsl libseccomp libssh2 libtirpc libunistring libusb libxcrypt nettle npth openldap pambase pcre2 perl pinentry sqlite tpm2-tss # Closure, second round. The first thirty-five pulled these in, exactly as # the comment above predicted, and the resolver named them just as # precisely. # # THE MEASUREMENT THAT MATTERS HERE IS THE ONE THAT CHANGED ITS ANSWER. # Four of these were going to be avoided by dropping a sub-package -- # sqlite-tcl, sqlite-analyzer, the openldap server, debuginfod -- on the # reasoning that had removed python-brotli earlier. Measured instead of # assumed, tcl, unixodbc and libmicrohttpd each cost ZERO new packages: # the closure had filled in around them. Building them is cheaper than # four hooks, and it does not leave sqlite shipping an sqltclsh that # cannot start. # # python still costs three (libffi, mpdecimal, gdbm) and is still avoided # -- but for the ABI reason, not the cost one: python-audit and # python-capng are cp313 wheels and Arch ships 3.14. Their hooks say so. # db5.3 gdbm e2fsprogs gnulib-l10n json-c keyutils p11-kit libsasl libsodium libtasn1 libverto lmdb popt lvm2 tcl unixodbc libmicrohttpd # ca-certificates-mozilla, which is the only thing here that is not a # library. It is the LIST OF ROOT CERTIFICATES -- ca-certificates itself # is only the trust machinery around it, so without this the target has a # trust store containing nothing, and every HTTPS verification fails. # curl declares ca-certificates, and pacman fetches through curl. # # It has no packaging repo of its own: the clone 404s, which # gitlab.archlinux.org reports by asking for a login -- the same # misleading shape that made libselinux look like a network problem. nss # produces it as a sub-package, so nss is what gets built, and nspr comes # with it. # # Measured before committing to it rather than estimated: nspr costs # nothing new, nss needs only nspr plus mercurial on the host, and # hg.mozilla.org answers from this build host (HTTP 302 in 0.3s -- worth # checking, since dev.gnupg.org does not answer at all and libassuan # needed a source change because of it). nspr nss # Closure, third round, and it is two packages. Both were pulled in by # what the second round added, and both cost nothing further: libffi by # libp11-kit, libevent by libverto. # # They are worth a line because of what they unblocked. p11-kit builds # into three packages, and libp11-kit's dependency on libffi was holding # up the whole chain ca-certificates -> ca-certificates-utils -> p11-kit # -> libp11-kit. The resolver reported it as "ca-certificates required by # curl" -- four links away from the missing name, and nothing in that # message points at libffi. libffi libevent # Closure, fourth round -- and it closed to NOTHING, which is the point # worth recording. It asked for libaio and thin-provisioning-tools, both # wanted by lvm2 alone. thin-provisioning-tools is Rust now, so that was a # language runtime arriving through a fourth-order dependency. # # Nothing in the repository wants `lvm2`. Checked across every .PKGINFO: # cryptsetup wants device-mapper, and device-mapper is the OTHER package # this same source produces. Dropping the lvm2 sub-package removed both # entries and the Rust question with them -- see patches/pkgbuild/lvm2.sh. # # 35 packages, then 19, then 2, then 0. The closure has to be recomputed # after each round rather than once: lvm2 DECLARED libaio all along, and # the third round could not see it because lvm2 had not been built yet. # What STAGE 2 needs in order to exist, which is a different question from # what the repository needs to resolve. # # Stage 2 rebuilds everything INSIDE the stage-1 rootfs, so the tools that # do the rebuilding have to be in that rootfs. The resolver never asked # for these -- nothing in the repository depends on them -- so the closure # rounds could not surface them. Enumerated instead from what makepkg and # an autotools build actually invoke. # # fakeroot is the one that decides whether stage 2 can start at all: # makepkg runs package() under it, and refuses to run as root. bison, # flex, texinfo and groff are what the sources themselves call -- gcc, # glibc and binutils all want makeinfo, and a great many configure scripts # want bison. # # sudo is deliberately NOT here. makepkg needs it only for --syncdeps, and # stage 2 passes --nodeps, so it would be a setuid binary in the chroot # for no reason. fakeroot bison flex texinfo groff # git, and it is not optional: 51 of the 159 PKGBUILDs take their sources # from a git+https URL, and makepkg re-validates that clone even with # --noextract. Without git in the chroot, stage 2 can rebuild a third of # the repository and no more. # # Its own three: perl-error, perl-mailtools (which brings perl-timedate) # and zlib-ng. Measured, not guessed -- and read from the depends array # rather than from my own tool, which had reported `zsh` as a dependency # of git. It is not; the tool's regex was catching a neighbouring array. perl-error perl-timedate perl-mailtools zlib-ng git # meson and cmake, which is where python re-enters -- and the distinction # matters, because dropping python earlier was not a mistake. # # At stage 1 the question was what the REPOSITORY must supply: python was # wanted only by python-brotli and python-libseccomp, wheels that Arch's # own python could not load anyway, so they went and python went with them. # Here the question is what the BUILD ENVIRONMENT must contain, and meson # is written in Python. Ten of the 159 PKGBUILDs call arch-meson; four call # cmake. Different question, different answer. # # Measured: mpdecimal, python, ninja, python-tqdm and meson, then cmake # with cppdap, jsoncpp, libuv, rhash and hicolor-icon-theme behind it. # Nothing further. mpdecimal python ninja python-tqdm meson cppdap jsoncpp libuv rhash hicolor-icon-theme cmake # And finally the package manager itself, built as an Arch package. pacman # Tools the STAGE-2 CHROOT needs, which the host supplied for free. # # Stage 1 never noticed these: install_host_deps put them there with apt, # and a build that finds its tool does not mention it. Inside the chroot # there is no apt and no host, so every one of them has to exist as a # package -- and the first thing stage 2 tried to rebuild stopped on # # /bin/sh: line 1: rsync: command not found # make[1]: *** [.../Makefile:1463: headers_install] Error 127 # # from linux-api-headers, the first entry in this list. xxhash is here # because rsync links it. xxhash rsync # The rest of that same class, named by stage 2's first full pass rather # than guessed. 77 packages rebuilt, 57 failed, and fourteen of the # failures named the tool they wanted outright: # # gperf coreutils, diffutils, systemd, libseccomp # wget sed, grep, findutils # patchelf curl # hostname gnupg (inetutils ships it) # xsltproc shadow (libxslt ships it -- see below) # swig audit # help2man flex # # All small and self-contained. Three more tools were asked for and are NOT # here -- po4a, asciidoc's a2x, and asciidoctor -- because each brings a # language runtime (Perl module stack, Python, Ruby) to render # documentation. Those three packages get a hook instead, the same # arbitration as --auto-features auto. gperf wget patchelf inetutils swig help2man # help2man's own closure. Stage 1 builds with --nodeps, so help2man built # cleanly and was then UNINSTALLABLE -- populate stopped the whole of stage-2 # pass two on # # unable to satisfy dependency 'perl-locale-gettext' required by help2man # # which is the routine consequence of --nodeps and the reason RESOLVE exists # in test-chroot.sh: a build succeeding says nothing about whether the # repository is complete. perl-locale-gettext # Python packaging, which three stage-2 builds stopped on: # # /usr/bin/python: No module named build # # brotli, libseccomp and meson build their wheels with `python -m build`, # and python-tqdm installs one. On the host these came from apt; in the # chroot they have to be packages. Ordered by their own dependencies: # flit-core bootstraps itself, then the two libraries build needs. # Of these seven, only python-flit-core builds on the host. The other six # compute their install paths from the running python, so the host bakes # Debian's dist-packages into them -- three failed on a `rm` that found # nothing, and three succeeded and shipped 180 unreachable module paths. # They are built by stage 2 instead; a stage-1 run is expected to report # them as failed, exactly like libxslt. python-flit-core python-packaging python-pyproject-hooks python-build python-installer python-setuptools python-wheel # scdoc: kmod's meson stopped on `Program 'scdoc' not found`. A man-page # generator, but a tiny self-contained C one -- nothing like the language # runtimes behind doxygen or asciidoctor, so it is cheaper to build than to # hook around. scdoc # libxslt stays in the list because it is part of the distribution, but # STAGE 1 CANNOT BUILD IT: # # configure: error: Version 2.14.5 found. You need at least libxml2 # 2.15.1 for this version of libxslt # # 2.14.5 is Ubuntu's. Ours is 2.15.3 and exists only inside the stage-2 # chroot, so that is the only place libxslt can come from -- it is in # STAGE2_FIRST, and a stage-1 run is expected to report it as failed. libxslt )