It is desirable always to be able to bootstrap yourself. I would like to see us doing it automatically as a distribution requirement in due course, but one thing at a time.
Creating a Fedora ARM distribution part 2: Bootstrapping
Posted Oct 24, 2011 19:07 UTC (Mon) by SiliconSlick (subscriber, #39955)
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"It is desirable always to be able to bootstrap yourself."
Confucius? Sun-Tzu? Plato? Mark Twain? Groucho Marx? Yogi Berra?
If one of them didn't say it, then one of them probably thought it at one point... it's deep. :)
Great set of articles, Jon(s)... thanks for contributing (and editing/publishing) them. Very informative.
Creating a Fedora ARM distribution part 2: Bootstrapping
Posted Oct 30, 2011 6:49 UTC (Sun) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
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I suppose the only cryptic part of this was that I knew v8 was coming and wanted us to be prepared. So, some of the tasks undertaken in the v7 bootstrap were intentionally aligned with increasing our ability to perform any subsequent bootstrap efforts.