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How does one reproduce a .c file? By copying the file. Either way, you know the bits of both the .c and the .so have not been tampered with because you can ve
by corysama 10y ago
How does one reproduce a .c file? By copying the file. Either way, you know the bits of both the .c and the .so have not been tampered with because you can verify their hashes. Again, it's a philosophical distinction, not a technical one.
- davexunit 10y agoIt is both a technical and social problem. Please read: https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/
- corysama 10y agoThe title of that project is "Reproducible Builds". But, that is only a step towards their goal of "Verifiable Builds". Thus we end up in this frustrating semantic mismatch between the two of us. Guix demands source-verifiable builds. Nix does not. Both enable reproducible builds equally well.