Recoding the configuration for live-build images

[David A. Wheeler]

> On Sep 3, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> ...
> From the Guix perspective, during the last Reproducible Builds Summit,
> we came up with code that generates a Linux initrd that, when booted,
> starts building software up to a given package; this is described under
> “Extreme Bootstrapping” at:
> 
>  https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/reproducible-builds-summit-5th-edition/
> 
> This is mostly a proof of concept to see how we can reduce the trusted
> computing base.

This reminds me of Fabrice Bellard’s “tccboot”:
  https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
In tccboot, you boot a tiny C compiler which can compile the Linux kernel, and then boot from there.

--- David A. Wheeler