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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:59:50 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru>
Subject: Re: Reproducible Builds for Fedora

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On 09/26/2013 07:51 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On 9/26/13 6:36 PM, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> 
>> The choice is simple -- produce byte-for-byte identical builds.
>> Both Tor and Debian aim at it.
> 
> FWIW, when we build compilers (and then all other binaries) at
> Google, we don't just aim for, but actually achieve bit-identical
> rebuilds.
> 
> New GCC releases often break this, but a few patches later the 
> capability is restored. Latest example: 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/127875
> 
> The ability to do bit-identical rebuild is critical to our build
> system 
> (http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/09/build-in-cloud-distributing-build-steps.html)
>
> 
and in particular the high cache hit rates it achieves.

Sorry I'm having trouble finding the patches, can you provide a URL?
Thanks.



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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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