NetBSD Reproducibility Report #6

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

Hi Holger,

On Mon, 2024-12-09 12:32:07 +0000, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 12:55:23PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> >   I don't know if it's any good to publish my tarball's checksums.
> > Maybe a manifest (with checksums) of the whole release tree
> > (containing kernel images, install filesystems, ...) might be useful
> > to have, but that's actually already (mostly) there:
> 
> yes, such a manifest sounds like a great idea. maybe call it
> buildinfo.manifest? or .buildinfo file? eg evbarm-earmv6.buildinfo?

Maybe I can ask to add checksums for other (install) build artifacts.

> > > & so I'm wondering: do the linux builds produce the exact same artifacts
> > > as the builds on netbsd?
> > When there is a "reproducibility star" in the final column (called
> > "All four builds"), then the tarball containing all release artifacts
> > are bit-identical for all four builds. (Getting even one all-fours is
> > a great achievement, but we're already at 44, nearly half of all
> > combinations, and a few of them are actually completely dead, like
> > or1k, playstation2-mipsel, sgimips-mips64eb, evbcf-coldfire,
> > arc-mips64el.)
> 
> wow, neato! (maybe explain that on the page too? "a star here means this,
> a star there that."?!)

:)  Whee, year, I'd add some more description.

MfG, JBG

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