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Will this provide a guaranteed method for reproducible builds, or will it still be technically possible to create build scripts that produce different results (
by jml7c5 12y ago
Will this provide a guaranteed method for reproducible builds, or will it still be technically possible to create build scripts that produce different results (e.g., by pulling from /dev/random, or grabbing timing information from various sources, or by writing a multithreaded program whose threads all write to a single file)?
- SwellJoe 12y agoHow could anyone or anything prevent you from building something nonreproducible? This is about making build processes that are intentionally reproducible... You seem to be asking if one could continue to do things as they currently are done, which given that the entire system is open source, of course you can. This can't possibly force all users to only make repeatable builds. This seems like such an odd question that I think I must be misunderstanding you.
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