From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: roadmap item Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:51:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bmz58ty7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpz9s-0008Qx-Dx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:51:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpz9q-0006sZ-CX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:51:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmz58ty7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Guix-devel On 2016-09-30 07:15, ng0 wrote: > Hi, > > can we add something to the roadmap like this: > > - guix package --search should displays if the returned packages one > asked for are reproducible. > > Having a distinction between reproducible and not reproducible would > enable us (or at least help us) to display the progress towards a fully > reproducible system. There are two distinctions that need to be made: 1. The package builds on a single machine with `guix build --no-substitutes --rounds=N foo`. 2. The result of `guix challenge foo` is clean. As noted in "Invoking 'guix challenge'", the latter requires the former, but both would be interesting to test, catalog, and display. -- `~Eric