From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Distributed verification of release tarballs using Guix? (was Re: Releasing 2.2.5?) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:15:31 -0500 Message-ID: <871ryen40s.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <87d0jrp0g3.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgsa2co4.fsf@netris.org> <87a7eh6x8m.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="165282"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 25 06:15:44 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hqVAM-000gqp-4V for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55666 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqVAK-00052a-OW for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqVAE-00052T-Jy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqVAD-0004mP-H1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from defaultvalue.org ([45.33.119.55]:37920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqVAD-0004m8-Cq; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 620352038E; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:15:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E068F14E066; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:15:31 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <87a7eh6x8m.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 45.33.119.55 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20020 Archived-At: Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > One issue is that =E2=80=9Cmake dist=E2=80=9D is non-deterministic becaus= e the archive > contains timestamps; I=E2=80=99m sure there of other sources of non-deter= minism > though, because =E2=80=9Cmake dist=E2=80=9D 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/ --=20 Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4