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Can anyone comment on whether or not Nix is 100% reproducible? To the best of my limited understanding, it is not.
by j_s 9y ago
Can anyone comment on whether or not Nix is 100% reproducible? To the best of my limited understanding, it is not.
- catern 9y agoNix doesn't guarantee bit-for-bit reproducibility: That is, two different builds of a Nix package may not produce bit-identical output. (They probably will, because of all the sandboxing, but nothing prevents an arbitrary package from generating random numbers at build time.) Certainly Nix makes it a lot easier to get reproducibility in practice, though.
- plesiv 9y agoIt is not. In this talk [1] Eelco Dolstra touches upon that a bit also. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH5qU1qBXY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH5qU1qBXY&feature=youtu.be