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Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility (lwn.net)
submitted 4 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Neither does fedora

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts

That's how Fedora defines it. I'm not sure of Nix OS meets this but I think Nix and Fedora have two very different use cases.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, and metadata from the build artifacts, any party can recreate copies of the artifacts that are identical except for the signatures and parts of metadata.

The reason Fedora is pursuing a different definition of reproducible build is that it cannot achieve ""bit-by-bit"" reproducibility by the original definition.