Please review the draft for March's report
kpcyrd
kpcyrd at archlinux.org
Wed Apr 10 11:42:12 UTC 2024
On 4/10/24 12:58 PM, Chris Lamb wrote:
> https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2024-03/?draft
> Reproducible builds developer kpcyrd reported that that the Arch
Linux "minimal container userland" is now 100% reproducible after work
by developers dvzv and Foxboron on the one remaining package. The post,
which kpcyrd suffixed with the question "now what?", continues on to
outline some potential next steps, including validating whether the
container image itself could be reproduced bit-for-bit. The post
generated a significant number of replies.
Thanks for the kind words :) maybe it should be listed higher though, in
its own section, as "major accomplishment within the community"?
It's also missing both the backseat-signed tool and the discussion in
it's thread that highlights the idea of "maybe we should put unmodified
git snapshots into .orig.tar.xz instead of allowing undocumented
pre-processing", for the security properties this would have.
Unfortunately the repo of the project is currently difficult to clone,
I've put 60MB of test data into git LFS, but Github only grants 1GB of
traffic on free tier, allowing about 16 clones. The files can currently
not be downloaded because I'd need to buy data packs.
I also didn't have any time to continue the email thread, however I
think I have made all my points sufficiently clear, for the people
reading the thread in the future.
There's currently a similar discussion on hacker news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988269
Thanks!
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