From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Mark H Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>, guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Distributed verification of release tarballs using Guix? (was Re: Releasing 2.2.5?)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:15:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ryen40s.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7eh6x8m.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> One issue is that “make dist” is non-deterministic because the archive
> contains timestamps; I’m sure there of other sources of non-determinism
> though, because “make dist” was not designed with that in mind.
>
> The non-source byproducts in release tarballs are: the pre-built .go
> files (which are optional), psyntax-pp.scm, and then Info files and all
> the autotools machinery. Are these those you had in mind?
If you haven't already seen it, I'd also suggest consulting
https://reproducible-builds.org. They've been doing a lot of relevant
heavy-lifting over the past few years (working on the relevant tools,
generating patches or workarounds, etc.). Their diffoscope tool might
also be of interest: https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 8:44 Releasing 2.2.5? Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-06 8:56 ` Nala Ginrut
2019-06-06 16:48 ` Mike Gran
2019-06-16 7:48 ` Distributed verification of release tarballs using Guix? (was Re: Releasing 2.2.5?) Mark H Weaver
2019-06-16 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-16 22:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-17 8:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-19 2:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-20 10:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-20 21:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-21 9:27 ` Neil Jerram
2019-07-25 4:15 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2019-07-25 8:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-25 15:26 ` Rob Browning
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