Re: Bootstrap binaries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps there's some miscommunication here- the problem right now is that the
> binaries aren't reproducible at all. Having them switched to reproducible 
> builds
> once and then tagging the Guix commit used would probably be enough to fix the
> problem. I don't think we need to rebuild them every time.

Ah sure, I agree!  Though to be on the safe side, we’d need to do
diverse double compilation (DDC) of these binaries, à la Wheeler.

Ludo’.