From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reproducible installation images
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:12:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87374gkdmq.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shch4nn1.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:30:58 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Here are the bootable USB installation images and their signatures[*]:
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.14.0.i686-linux.iso.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.14.0.i686-linux.iso.xz.sig
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz.sig
>>>
>>> Here is the QCOW2 virtual machine (VM) image and its signature:
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-vm-image-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-vm-image-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.xz.sig
>>>
>>> Here are the binary tarballs and their signatures[*]:
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.i686-linux.tar.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.i686-linux.tar.xz.sig
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz.sig
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.armhf-linux.tar.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.armhf-linux.tar.xz.sig
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.14.0.aarch64-linux.tar.xz.sig
>>
>> To enable independent verification of these installer images, it would
>> be helpful to include the precise commands needed to reproduce these
>> images, and the git commit to run them on.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> The manual already gives those commands:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html (bottom)
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html
They give the commands, but they do not provide the git commit that you
ran these commands on.
> However, disk images are likely not bit-reproducible currently,
> primarily due to non-determinism in how file systems populate the disk.
That's true, but it would still allow us to independently create images
as close as possible to the ones you created, and it would allow us to
compare the images and see how they differ.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-07 12:45 GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0 released Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-07 17:05 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-08 22:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-11 9:30 ` Reproducible installation images Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-11 9:36 ` ng0
2017-12-11 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-12 0:12 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2017-12-12 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-12 22:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-15 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
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