Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> I lost track of the details -- is this problem still likely to bite us >> in the future, or was something committed to mitigate against it? > > “Time bombs” are the worst of non-reproducibility bugs because (1) we > don’t have workarounds other than changing the system time on the > machine that performs the build, and (2) we currently lack a way to > detect them. I see. Thanks for explaining! > In this thread, Chris and I proposed addressing #2 by offering ways to > automatically or manually run builds “in the future”¹. We could actually > similarly address #1 by running builds “in the past”. > > In any case, the first step is probably to offer a VM service for Guix > System, similar to childhurd, with an option to specify the starting > time. > > So we’re not done yet, but the discussion has drifted beyond the > original GnuTLS bug report, so perhaps we can close it and take it > elsewhere? I think so! Few seems to visit these years old reports. If there's something to brainstorm about, I'd rather see it happen in a new thread on guix-devel. Thanks for the reply! Closing. Maxim
