From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs is not reproducible Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 17:55:15 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87h7j1xsm4.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <87lf8dcrcd.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31793"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cc8wT+VBl+rDX1LVx8N2W0VmP4k= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 17:59:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1life0-00084x-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 17:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifdz-0008E5-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifab-0005Ev-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:59206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lifaZ-0005Z2-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 11:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lifaW-0002u4-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 17:55:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269412 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:28:18 -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: >> I am using the Guix operating system. It provides tools to verify if >> a software package is reproducible. > > What does it even mean to say a software package is "reproducible"? It means this: you can build it multiple times on the same or even on different systems (which need to enable the same configuration of course) and you get exactly identical build artefacts out of each such build. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables