Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

There's an entire Debian project working on making Debian builds deterministic and/or reproducible. The fact that they had to devote a whole team to it and they've poured who knows how many hours into it kind of says that most software builds aren't reproducible (deterministic, theoretically, yes, cause in many cases it's just different timestamps).


NixOS also has a reproducibility project: https://r13y.com/

It seems that things must have recently regressed; the page currently says 40% but it used to say 98%.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: