[rb-general] Flathub, initial proposal

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Aug 31 09:19:17 CEST 2016


On ons, 2016-08-31 at 08:14 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 31 August 2016 at 07:30, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > However, getting fully reproducible builds is all about tweaking
> > the
> > individual build of each app.
> Is there a list of best practices for app authors? It seems to
> benefit
> both parties if we can keep the ostree update size down by giving app
> authors a laundry list to check, especially how the majority are
> already doing small tweaks to make the flatpak build easier.

I don't have such a list, but you can probably find one onĀ 
reproducible-builds.org.

Actually, this ties in with flathub a bit. We could, given idle
resources, try to re-build your app with --disable-cache and do "ostree
diff" on it to report on potential issues with reproducability.

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