"Reproducible build" definition in OpenSSF glossary

[Holger Levsen]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 06:30:50PM +0200, Bernhard M. Wiedemann via rb-general wrote:
> 1. would require that one set of given build inputs always produce one
> certain output - similar to a mathematical function where f(const1)=const2
> 
> 2. would include 1. and require extra properties for build inputs - that
> they be produced from sources - and ideally that includes all toolchain
> packages (gcc, glibc) as well and transitively their respective build
> inputs... and that sounds a lot like what we called "bootstrappable builds"
> so far.
> And when we already have this nice word for that concept that is clearly a
> superset of reproducible builds, we can keep calling 1. "reproducible
> builds".

*grin*

thanks, agreed.


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