Re: Cross-distro reproducible build patches

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi!

Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> skribis:

> On 05/01/17 19:00, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> A new initiative to share repro-build patches has started as a followup
>> to the Reproducible Build Summit:
>>
>>    http://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-January/000222.html
>>    https://github.com/distropatches/reproducible-builds
> Cool.
>
> [...]
>> … but I think a number things are written as snippets rather than actual
>> patches.
> Indeed, for instance, I just came some of these for cd-hit while
> updating it. Do you think it makes sense to convert these to patches
> where possible so that they can be shared?

I think it’s important to share, but I also think that snippets are more
convenient and more expressive in some cases.  So I’d rather not convert
those snippets to patches.

That said, commented snippets may still be useful to non-Schemey
distros.

Ludo’.