Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/19/19 11:26 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:22:34 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Tinu Weber
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:22:34 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: > >> remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as > >> i can tell. > >

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: >> remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i >> can tell. > > The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of remakepkg were unclear to > me, so I

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Robin Broda via arch-general
On 2/19/19 4:19 PM, Tinu Weber wrote: > Author of remakepkg here. I think that adding such functionality to > pacman would be a bit... backwards. > > >> remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i >> can tell. > > The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Tinu Weber
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: > On 2/19/19 7:20 AM, Michael Lojkovic via arch-general wrote: > > > > The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing > > remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got > >

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 2/19/19 1:20 AM, Michael Lojkovic via arch-general wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:51:37 +0530 > Aniket Pradhan wrote: > >> Hello Govind, and Everyone! >> >> Thanks for your feedback. >> >> Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the >> ideas do not apply to Arch. >>

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-19 Thread Robin Broda via arch-general
On 2/19/19 7:20 AM, Michael Lojkovic via arch-general wrote: > > The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing > remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got > around to it, but it's also worth doing for Google Summer of Code. > >

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-18 Thread Michael Lojkovic via arch-general
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 20:51:37 +0530 Aniket Pradhan wrote: > Hello Govind, and Everyone! > > Thanks for your feedback. > > Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the > ideas do not apply to Arch. > > If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the

[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-02 Thread Aniket Pradhan
Hello Govind, and Everyone! Thanks for your feedback. Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the ideas do not apply to Arch. If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the reproducible builds or the CLI tool as you discussed) we would need people

Re: [arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-01 Thread Govind KP via arch-general
Hello Aniket (and all), Long-time lurker here. I too am a student, and would love to be working on this. However, FoxBoron's comments on the thread seem to me to be pretty on-point and pragmatic with regards to the logistics aspect of it. Another issue I have is the limited number of areas

[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

2019-02-01 Thread Aniket Pradhan
Hello Everyone! I am Aniket Pradhan, a student. Please refer to this Reddit thread I had raised earlier and was recommended to ask here. I was wondering if the Arch organization is willing to take