From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Bootstrap binaries Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:22:23 -0800 Message-ID: <871t7wm6pc.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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> <20160228151029.GA21157@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaGHr-00065W-JA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:22:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaGHo-0005kt-EX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:22:27 -0500 In-reply-to: <20160228151029.GA21157@novena-choice-citizen.lan> 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: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel Jookia writes: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> We would have to update them every time we change GCC, Guile, Coreutil= s, >> 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 th= at the > binaries aren't reproducible at all. Having them switched to reproducib= le 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. Yes, this is what I was originally suggesting!