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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs is not reproducible
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 15:45:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKKPmYpFqR1qGhMi@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf8dcrcd.fsf@disroot.org>

Hello, Bone.

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"?

> <https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/On-Trusting-Binaries.html#On-Trusting-Binaries> 

> For details on how Emacs 27.2 is not reproducible see
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35085#7>.  Previous versions of
> Emacs are also not reproducible as reported in that thread.

> For information on why reproducible software is important see
> <https://reproducible-builds.org/>.

> For information on how to make software reproducible see
> <https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/>.

> Is there currently any work underway to make Emacs reproducible?

Without knowing what it means, I can't really say, but I suspect not.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 15:28 Emacs is not reproducible Bone Baboon
2021-05-17 15:45 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-05-17 15:55   ` Achim Gratz
2021-05-17 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-17 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23  3:31   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23 23:52     ` Glenn Morris
2021-05-25 17:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-25 17:52         ` T.V Raman
2021-05-25 18:03         ` Glenn Morris
2021-05-26 20:58           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-27 12:24             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-27 21:33               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-25 18:27         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-27 21:32           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-28  9:00             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-06-05 16:26               ` Warning in tramp.el (was: Emacs is not reproducible) Stefan Monnier
2021-06-06  6:42                 ` Warning in tramp.el Michael Albinus
2021-06-06 17:48                   ` Stefan Monnier

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