FLINT

12 notes filed under FLINT, newest first. Same rules as the rest of the pile: a codename, a theme, and no internals.

codename FLINT · 12 notes · 12 themes · all codenames

all themes alerting-versus-liveness 1 boot-entry-rollback 1 bootstrap-barrier 1 build-host-capacity 1 declared-versus-achieved 1 image-age 1 image-handoff 1 install-discovery 1 ordering-as-safety 1 reference-is-not-content 1 reversal 1 stable-identity 1

FLINT · image-age · 2 min read

the installer was older than the machine it built

An installation image is a snapshot of a system taken at a moment nobody records, and the machine that downloads it inherits that moment. The first thing the bootstrap does here is move the installed package set forward to current, which is…

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FLINT

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the installer was older than the machine it built

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