Re: Buildinfo in the Debian archive, updates

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:58:00AM +, Ximin Luo wrote: [Signature field for build-info] > If we go down this route (and it's looking pretty good IMO) then I > agree that we don't need to store the binary hashes in Packages.gz. > But we should store a hash of each Buildinfos.xz in the Release

Re: Buildinfo in the Debian archive, updates

2016-12-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:00:00AM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Jonathan McDowell: > > I was under the impression that each set of binary artefacts from a > > build would be accompanied by a single buildinfo file describing the > > environment used. This would be signed by

Re: Buildinfo in the Debian archive, updates

2016-12-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 06:21:09PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I'd be wary about this "multiple such fields" bit. it seems likely that > different buildinfo files will not match each other, even if the > *output* is reproducible. This is because buildinfo files can capture > some things

Re: Buildinfo in the Debian archive, updates

2016-12-06 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:24:20PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:57:00PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > This email is a summary of some discussions that happened after the > > last post to bug #763822, plus some more of my own thoughts and > > reasoning on the topic. > > I

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#763822: Moving towards buildinfo on the archive network

2016-08-21 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 04:01:00PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Jonathan McDowell: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 03:13:00PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> Note that the builder is a *distinct entity* from the distribution. > >> It's important to keep the *original* signature by

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Moving towards buildinfo on the archive network

2016-08-21 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 03:13:00PM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Jonathan McDowell: > > Having been impressed by the current status of reproducible builds > > and the fact it looks like we're close to having the important > > pieces in Debian proper, I have started to have a lo