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Re: Bootstrap binaries
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Bootstrap binaries |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:08:00 +0100 |
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Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:19:04AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I prefer to change those binaries as rarely as possible. Intuitively
>> (and unscientifically), it gives more confidence to keep using the same
>> old binaries wrt. Ken Thompson attacks.
>
> I'm not sure about that, if we could establish the binaries could be
> reproducibly built using the current bootstrap binaries it sounds like it
> could
> be fine. Having reproducible bootstrap binaries seems like something
> incredibly
> useful especially for packagers that for whatever reason want to verify that
> the
> binaries can be built with Guix before signing them.
We would have to update them every time we change GCC, Guile, Coreutils,
etc. or one of their dependencies, which sounds impractical or even
infeasible to me.
Ludo’.
- Re: GSoC ideas, (continued)
- Re: GSoC ideas, Diane Trout, 2016/02/23
- Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Leo Famulari, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Efraim Flashner, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Jookia, 2016/02/24
- Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/25
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/25
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/26
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Jookia, 2016/02/28
- Re: Bootstrap binaries,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Jookia, 2016/02/28
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/29
- Re: Bootstrap binaries, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/29
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Diane Trout, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Thompson, David, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Diane Trout, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Efraim Flashner, 2016/02/25
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Diane Trout, 2016/02/25
- Re: GSoC ideas, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2016/02/24