Re: Building Debian Completely From Source
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:47:44PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Yes, but building the complete Debian package is hopefully not necessary for
> bootstrapping purposes, only to get a working make binary.
So it would be wort to look at the LFS scripts, to get a minimum system boot
strapped.
On the other side, if you use any form of external tools (and you will need
to do that unless you use the ROM debugger from IBM PCs to enter bootstrap
code), you can also use a minimal bootstrap system from cross compiler.
This would not be safe against the Thompsons trust[1] attack, but at least it
will generate a nearly completely reproduceable build environment.
Greetings
Bernd
[1] http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
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