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The distros do maintain a reference back to the source. Debian makes it trivial to download the source code for packages and to build it yourself. apt source
by uep 8y ago
The distros do maintain a reference back to the source. Debian makes it trivial to download the source code for packages and to build it yourself.
apt source htop
apt build-dep htop
cd htop-2.0.2
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc
- uep 8y agoI should mention that reproducible builds are really about making bit-for-bit identical builds. There are reasons this is difficult, including individual projects inserting timestamps at the time that they build, or compile-time randomness, sort order of files in the filesystem based on the current locale, etc.