From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Felix Lechner" <felix.lechner@gmail.com>,
"Guix Devel" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A corner case of broken reproducibility
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:50:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ed97ec94facf684e9b50d716e736185b26f8111.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220601224113.52e92744@riseup.net>
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raingloom schreef op wo 01-06-2022 om 22:41 [+0200]:
> Could we instead check for existing homes and set uids in
> /etc/passwd based on that instead? That's practically O(1), but is a
> bit more involved.
For this to work, the home directory may not be changed. As Ludo wrote
(albeit about user names, not home directories):
> How do you know that user “maxime” created today is “the same” as
> that “maxime” deleted a while back? You can’t.
Maybe it's an option, but there are other complications as well that
need to be resolved somehow.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-01 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-25 6:10 A corner case of broken reproducibility Blake Shaw
2022-05-25 11:35 ` Felix Lechner
2022-05-30 15:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-30 20:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-01 16:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-01 19:59 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-02 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 14:43 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-01 20:09 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-01 20:41 ` raingloom
2022-06-01 21:50 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2022-06-02 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
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