From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
To: "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr>,
"Gábor Boskovits" <gboskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>,
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>,
Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:41:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilo3832q.fsf@contorta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lesz83bw.fsf@contorta>
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On 2022-07-11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I hear Efraim say better to have unique randomness and no substitutes,
> and I hear Tobias say more or less it's ok as long as upstream is right
> about it being ok to embed a specific prime as other random numbers get
> mixed in at runtime...
Well, now that I hit send already, I guess another option is ... to have
both?
One package without patches that is not substitutable and not
reproducible, and one with patches that is verifyably reproducible and
substitutable?
live well,
vagrant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-12 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-07 1:49 maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-07 3:24 ` Felix Lechner
2022-06-07 5:20 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-06-07 12:11 ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-08 11:48 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-08 14:09 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-08 11:47 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-08 20:33 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-23 2:05 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-28 1:31 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-28 9:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-28 15:39 ` Jack Hill
2022-06-28 16:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-28 16:18 ` Gábor Boskovits
2022-06-28 16:33 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-28 19:06 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-28 19:15 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-07-12 2:36 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-07-12 2:41 ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]
2022-07-18 11:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-19 13:09 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-06-07 15:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-08 19:28 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-08 20:25 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-14 17:16 ` Philip McGrath
2022-06-08 19:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-06-08 20:23 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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