From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Bootstrap binaries Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 02:10:29 +1100 Message-ID: <20160228151029.GA21157@novena-choice-citizen.lan> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aa2zk-0002re-1O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:10:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aa2zj-0007oN-8L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:10:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87povgyisv.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès 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 fix the problem. I don't think we need to rebuild them every time. > Ludo’. Jookia.