From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: roadmap item Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:26:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20160930142618.GA5629@jocasta.intra> References: <87bmz58ty7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DocE+STaALJfprDB" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpylf-0003vI-LS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:26:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpylb-0006z9-1X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:26:27 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:57043 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpyla-0006vx-P8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:26:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline 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 --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:15:28PM +0000, ng0 wrote: Hi, =20 can we add something to the roadmap like this: =20 - guix package --search should displays if the returned packages one asked for are reproducible. =20 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. I don't see how anyone can say that package X is definitely reproducible. Just because it built identically twice, doesn't mean that it'll happen again the third time - especially if that attempt is on a different=20 machine, day-of-week etc Perhaps there could be a flag to indicate "this derivation has been demonst= rated NOT to be reproducible". J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlfudgoACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OPSwCfYvfmJA8+U1Qh+OoP1cfhg3eD Te8An1QlQ3yXWHNW2xqAiMWw3gdr/YEZ =ZF54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--