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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:07:55 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Reproducible Builds for Fedora
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Dhiru Kholia wrote:
>> I have been working on having Reproducible Builds in Fedora for some
>> time.
>>
>> At this point, I think I have something demoable. Ensuring Reproducible
>> Builds is a big task and I want your feedback, ideas, code and support.
>
> In openSUSE we have reproducible binaries to a certain extend. That
> project was started some years ago with different (non-security)
> intentions. Since the build service rebuilds packages automatically
> if any depending package changes, a way was needed to avoid publishing new
> rpms if the build result result didn't actually change. So there are
> now some scripts that automatically run at the of a new build and
> determine with some heuristics whether the new rpms match the old
> rpms¹. You can see the output of that script in every build log in
> openSUSE:Factory.
There are similar efforts for Debian:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
Cheers,
Moritz
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