Re: Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

2024-03-05 Thread Eric Myhre
On 3/4/24 22:25, David A. Wheeler via rb-general wrote: On Mar 4, 2024, at 3:37 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:52:07AM -0800, John Gilmore wrote: Why would these become "wishlist" bugs as opposed to actual reproducibility bugs that deserve fixing, just because one server

Re: Introducing: Semantically reproducible builds

2023-05-27 Thread Eric Myhre
I could see myself supporting this. It seems appropriate for the weaker term to require more words (thereby teeing up the opportunity to point out the distinction, which will remain important to do as part of urging further progress).  And this proposal does fit that criteria! Cheers! On

Re: Future of reprotest and alternatives (sbuild wrapper)?

2023-03-01 Thread Eric Myhre
On 28.02.2023 04:15, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 06:11:16PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: It also contains forks of some autopkgtest code, last updated in 2017, if I am reading the git logs correctly. It is apparently no longer working with current versions of qemu with the

Re: Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)

2022-06-21 Thread Eric Myhre
I vaguely recall having a conversation about PGO with an engineer from Huawei (iirc) at an RB summit several years ago.  I think we came to that same idea -- of AOT determination and simply storing it -- fairly quickly; and came to no further ideas after prolonged thought. And though it's

Re: Reproducible Builds Verification Format

2020-05-12 Thread Eric Myhre
Some of these dreams and the outlines of these concepts have been around quite a bit longer than this year, even.  I think some differential diagnosis about what makes this draft different, and why it makes the choices it does, would be useful. Some things I'd like to see identified and

[rb-general] Reproducible builds for... steampunk mind-transfer gadgetry (in webcomics)?

2019-10-03 Thread Eric Myhre
I get a giggle now and again when the concept of reproducible builds appears in some other cultural context.  Such as this week, in a webcomic! (Context: steampunk universe; mad geniuses everywhere, generally building gadgets and then thinking about the consequences later; and at this moment

Re: [rb-general] advice on stashing compiler options in a binary

2019-03-20 Thread Eric Myhre
On 3/20/19 12:19 PM, Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) wrote: In today's world, or you can easily create full containers or at least chroot sandboxes, those are pretty easy to recreate. Or a simpler option, fully static binaries like those M2-Planet creates. https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet Where

Re: [rb-general] __DATE__ and other toolchain patches

2019-01-14 Thread Eric Myhre
On 1/14/19 12:42 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: I personally still prefer to _also_ push for single fixes, dropping any source of possible unreproducibilities. After all, the build date is totally meaningless in pretty much all cases I can think of, so getting rid of it completely is only good, and

Re: [rb-general] transitive collision resistance [was: rb formalism]

2018-12-21 Thread Eric Myhre
Folks, if there's something to say about hashes that can be answered by a quick trip to Wikipedia or your other favorite fount of public knowledge, please consider doing so... this is discussion, though liveliness is good, is starting to seem like a significant divergence from the core

Re: [rb-general] Reproducible Java builds with Maven

2018-11-26 Thread Eric Myhre
On 26.11.2018 03:00, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote: Hi Hervé, thanks for raising this topic. On 26/11/2018 09.08, Hervé Boutemy wrote: Anybody interested in working together? With openSUSE we are doing all builds offline to ensure that we can repeat builds later (without worry about offline or