Hi Jelle, Disclaimer: there will be no technical advice for you in this message! 😅
On Sat Oct 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM CEST, Jelle Licht wrote: > The source tarball is one release artifact that nobody can reproduce > easily. As far as I can see it is usually built by running "make dist" on > some merry release team member's machine and contains generated files > not in Git. I was also surprise when I read that in the release "doc". > I'm working on a rough series that builds the release tarball from a > single commit with guix time-machine, so anyone can check it. Imagine > being able to run something like this to reproduce the release tarball: > > guix time-machine -q --commit=commit-after-tag-v1.6.0 -- build -e '((@ (gnu > ci release) guix-dist-tarball))' Building the release assets with a guix command and being able to do it on the CI sounds so much sexier! So, even if I cannot help you on that, +1! -- Tanguy
