From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reproducible installation images
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:21:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vahd1jur.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171211093649.rbka5xk6ojrcvhtf@abyayala> (ng0@n0.is's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:36:49 +0000")
ng0 <ng0@n0.is> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 2.6K bytes:
[...]
>> However, disk images are likely not bit-reproducible currently,
>> primarily due to non-determinism in how file systems populate the disk.
>>
>> They might be reproducible if ‘guix system’ always creates files in the
>> same order, which is something we could enforce (perhaps that’s already
>> the case). If it’s not sufficient, then we should look at what others
>> in the reproducible-builds.org effort have been doing (Tails achieved
>> reproducible ISO images, for instance, and I think OpenWrt people were
>> looking at ext2 reproducibility.)
>>
>> There may also be lingering non-reproducibility issues in some of the
>> packages included that need to be addressed.
>>
>> It would be good to investigate!
>
> Definitely, I agree. Should we open a new bug ticket to track this effort?
Sure, two even: one for the binary tarball, one for the GuixSD ISO
image.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-11 13:21 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 [this message]
2017-12-12 0:12 ` Mark H Weaver
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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