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).
next prev parent 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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