[rb-general] Flathub, initial proposal

[James]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes indeed. This page has some information.

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/

Click on the timestamps entry for a canonical example.

There are unfortunately 100's of ways builds can be made
non-deterministic, but a lot of this is solved by the tool chains
used. So if we incorporate those things from day one, it's easier than
having to retroactively fix them.

HTH