From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: reproducibility
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:49:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mel2m94.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPP+j6jfmLFk5WuHxa6q=fRO++KHkeOZ4kC-Mnw8ZxNcSA@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Sat, 9 Jan 2016 11:53:27 +0100")
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
> I've noticed that a derivation is a function of the order of the
> inputs. As an example, the following two input orders give rise to two
> distinct derivations:
>
> A)
>
> (inputs
> `(("texlive" ,texlive)
> ("texinfo" ,texinfo)
> ("m4" ,m4)
> ("libx11" ,libx11))
>
> B)
> (inputs
> `(("texinfo" ,texinfo)
> ("texlive" ,texlive)
> ("m4" ,m4)
> ("libx11" ,libx11))
>
> Is this intentional?
Yes. There are several places where order matters, most importantly
search paths, and these are computed from the input lists.
Ludo’.
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2016-01-09 10:53 reproducibility Federico Beffa
2016-01-10 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-01-12 20:11 ` reproducibility Federico Beffa
2016-01-12 21:37 ` reproducibility Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-13 8:13 ` reproducibility Federico Beffa
2016-01-13 9:15 ` reproducibility Efraim Flashner
2016-01-13 19:51 ` reproducibility Federico Beffa
2016-01-13 13:56 ` reproducibility Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-13 19:53 ` reproducibility Federico Beffa
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