Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pádraig Brady skribis: > On 22/12/15 17:00, Mike Gerwitz wrote: >> There is ongoing discussion about reproducible builds within GNU. I'm >> having trouble figuring out the best approach for deterministic >> distribution archives using Automake. > > I've not thought much about this, but I'm > won

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 22, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > Attempting to get archiving tools to produce the same results at different > times on different machines is close to impossible Fortunately, others have already done much of the hard work: https://reproducible-builds.org/

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 22/12/15 17:00, Mike Gerwitz wrote: There is ongoing discussion about reproducible builds within GNU. I'm having trouble figuring out the best approach for deterministic distribution archives using Automake. I've not thought much about this, but I

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 22, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 22/12/15 17:00, Mike Gerwitz wrote: >> There is ongoing discussion about reproducible builds within GNU. > > I’m wondering about how useful deterministic tarballs are? This page gives the “whys” of reproducible builds: https://wiki.de

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 22/12/15 17:00, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > There is ongoing discussion about reproducible builds within GNU. I'm > having trouble figuring out the best approach for deterministic > distribution archives using Automake. I've not thought much about this, but I'm wondering about how useful determinist

Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Automake dist reproducibility

2015-12-22 Thread Mike Gerwitz
There is ongoing discussion about reproducible builds within GNU. I'm having trouble figuring out the best approach for deterministic distribution archives using Automake. Here's my original message on gnu-prog-discuss: > I did read https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/. > > Automake-ge