Re: Status update on reproducible builds in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Here’s an update on reproducibility in Guix:
>>
>>   
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-builds-a-status-update.html
>
> At least 78% to possibly 91% reproduciblility of packages is not bad.
>
> Is there a (small) core that is already 100% reprocucible, like the
> installation binaries/USB installer, bare-bones.tmpl or even
> lightweight-desktop.tmpl?

Good question!  I think as soon as you have Python .pyc files in the
dependency graph (reference graph), there are non-reproducible bits.  We
certainly have Python stuff in the base system reference graph, so
that’s one thing we should fix most urgently I guess.

Ludo’.