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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Cross-distro reproducible build patches
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:20:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9zknx3r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b109adb-e35d-8875-fe59-983a06b5156f@uq.edu.au> (Ben Woodcroft's message of "Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:16:25 +1000")

Hi!

Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> skribis:

> On 05/01/17 19:00, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> A new initiative to share repro-build patches has started as a followup
>> to the Reproducible Build Summit:
>>
>>    http://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-January/000222.html
>>    https://github.com/distropatches/reproducible-builds
> Cool.
>
> [...]
>> … but I think a number things are written as snippets rather than actual
>> patches.
> Indeed, for instance, I just came some of these for cd-hit while
> updating it. Do you think it makes sense to convert these to patches
> where possible so that they can be shared?

I think it’s important to share, but I also think that snippets are more
convenient and more expressive in some cases.  So I’d rather not convert
those snippets to patches.

That said, commented snippets may still be useful to non-Schemey
distros.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-06 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-05  9:00 Cross-distro reproducible build patches Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-06  1:16 ` Ben Woodcroft
2017-01-06 13:20   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-01-12 22:18 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-13 13:08   ` Ludovic Courtès

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