From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Bootstrap binaries Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:01:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8mjj0mv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8737sj7znl.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160224000234.GA21278@jasmine> <20160224111651.06b2c8e2@debian-netbook> <20160224093658.GA28873@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <878u284pxq.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87wppsedu2.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87oab3ys9j.fsf@gnu.org> <20160228105135.GB3949@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <87povgyisv.fsf@gnu.org> <20160228151029.GA21157@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaKeG-0003KJ-Jm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:01:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaKeA-0000Uh-Or for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:01:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160228151029.GA21157@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (Jookia's message of "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 02:10:29 +1100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> We would have to update them every time we change GCC, Guile, Coreutils, >> etc. or one of their dependencies, which sounds impractical or even >> infeasible to me. > > Perhaps there's some miscommunication here- the problem right now is that= the > binaries aren't reproducible at all. Having them switched to reproducible= builds > once and then tagging the Guix commit used would probably be enough to fi= x the > problem. I don't think we need to rebuild them every time. Ah sure, I agree! Though to be on the safe side, we=E2=80=99d need to do diverse double compilation (DDC) of these binaries, =C3=A0 la Wheeler. Ludo=E2=80=99.