Reproducibility terminology/definitions

[ahojlm at 0w.se]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:24:51AM +0100, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> One thing that the official definition
> 
>    https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/
> 
> does not explicitly address

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> <https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/>.

Regrettably, the referred blog entry is incorrect:

""[...] something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the
birth of Unix.
We refer to this as the Full-Source Bootstrap"

The author may freely call a binary-seed-based bootstrap "Full-Source".

At the same time, to pretend that a (real) source-only bootstrap never
happened earlier is dishonest.

I find it highly disturbing with repeated promotion of the mentioned
guix blog entry on this list.

In doubt, see [1], [2].

Yours
 an

[1]
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2023-March/002900.html
[2]
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2023-October/003108.html