Argument about reproducible builds on usenet in 1999

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Hi!

On 21/06/2023 19:04, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> December 1999 thread titled "Time independent checksum(cksum)" on comp.unix.programming.
> Huge thanks to emolinare, who managed to save most of usenet and publish
> it to usenetarchives.com in 2020.  I'm pretty sure this link will
> get you to the thread:
>    https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.unix.programmer&mid=PDgyaDhsMyR2ZWYkMUBubnJwMS5kZWphLmNvbT4
> 
> The topics will all be very familiar to readers of this list.
> It starts with Jayan asking about comparing binaries that might have
> difference in their embedded timestamps.
> Foreshadowing diffoscope, amiright?

Thanks for raising this up! :)

> Anyway, a possibly interesting trip down memory lane.  Is there a place in
> reproducible-builds.org to talk about history?  The concept is clearly
> much older than 1999.

The website has a page on history: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/history/
If you feel like writing about these discussions, I guess it would be more than welcome.

The source for this page is visible online:
https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/-/blob/master/_docs/history.md

The page is still very Debian-centric, as it was lifted from the Debian Wiki. It is missing a lot of events since 2016 (!) and could also benefit from contributions from other communities.

The best way would be to submit a merge request. How to join the group on the Salsa forge is explained on the following page https://reproducible-builds.org/contribute/salsa/

Cheers,
Lunar