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Why do you care about the order of packages in Packages? What does "build reproducibly" even mean in this context?
by jwilk 9y ago
Why do you care about the order of packages in Packages?
What does "build reproducibly" even mean in this context?
- viraptor 9y agoTwo repositories with same content should have same metadata. For the same reasons we want reproducible binaries - to spot differences. (Also prevents useless re-download in some cases, I guess)
- cperciva 9y agoWhy do you care about the order of packages in Packages? In my personal case, so that when I build a repository which has some new packages and some old packages, when I look at the resulting pull request in github I can see that the packages which haven't changed have indeed not changed. What does "build reproducibly" even mean in this context? Two repositories with the same packages have identical Packages files. Or for me, slightly more generally, when the Packages file changes, it changes as minimally as possible.