From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Some newbie questions Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:35:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1vwfh5p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151029213039.GA11403@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39261) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsCee-0000OJ-MT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:35:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsCeb-0004ro-G9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:35:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151029213039.GA11403@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:30:39 +0100") 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: Adam Pribyl Cc: guix-devel Andreas Enge skribis: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:11:11PM +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote: >> >Nothing really specific. I was just curious if it was possible. Now tha= t I >> >think about it, >> >I should get the same result whether building myself or installing a >> >substitute, >> >right? >> Right. Thats what is going on here - binary same. > > Well, that is assuming that the builds are deterministic - which is our g= oal, > but which is not guaranteed. If a binary encodes the build time, for exam= ple, > then different builds will yield different results. But you can help! :-) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00696.html >> >The .links directory takes >> >over 2GiB on my machine and I wonder why. > > If I remember correctly, these are just hard links into the store that se= rve > for deduplication. Yes, see also: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-09/msg00422.html Ludo=E2=80=99.