On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Karl Semich <fuzzy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently learned about guix and I haven't found any information on > approaching deterministic builds by changing library and kernel > functions to have deterministic behavior. Has anybody done this? > > For example, I would imagine if I needed timestamps to no longer be a > factor, I might change how the current time is reported to the build > environment, such that it is always precisely equal to the time of > last modification of the source package. Similarly /dev/*random > should return deterministic numbers seeded by perhaps the hash of the > source package and all dependencies. > > Has there been a discussion of this somewhere?
I'm not sure if there has been an on-the-record discussion of this anywhere, but I have thought about similar things re: random numbers. Maybe this thread is the time to discuss? :) - Dave
