Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2017-01-20 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 02:14:24PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! Hej Ludó! > The problem is that you never know whether a package is reproducible. I see the philosophical debate you had at the summit, but I think most users would be fine with something pragmatic that *improves* the

Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2017-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! carlo von lynX skribis: > Congrats! ng0 just showed me > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/reproducibility.html Spoiler alert! :-) (I haven’t mentioned it on the list yet because it’s not fully baked.) > Great file.. and great that I only saw

Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2017-01-12 Thread carlo von lynX
Congrats! ng0 just showed me https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/reproducibility.html Great file.. and great that I only saw some twenty important packages that need to be built manually.. most of the stuff is trustworthy in binary form. EXCELLENT! Now the perfect thing would be that this

Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2016-09-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:06:40AM +, ng0 wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > Basically, we need someone to be a reproducibility champion in Guix! We > > have all the tools to test reproducibility, but somebody needs to > > implement a system to actually perform the tests

Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2016-09-19 Thread ng0
Leo Famulari writes: > [ Unknown signature status ] > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:11:00PM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote: >> Hello everyone! > > Hi, welcome! > >> Some questions I couldn't resolve from manuals and searches: > > It's always good to hear this kind of question! > >>

Re: Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2016-09-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:11:00PM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote: > Hello everyone! Hi, welcome! > Some questions I couldn't resolve from manuals and searches: It's always good to hear this kind of question! > I haven't figured out if there is a way to know which packages > are reproducible. I

Install FAQ: Only build the non-deterministic packages?

2016-09-16 Thread carlo von lynX
Hello everyone! Some questions I couldn't resolve from manuals and searches: I haven't figured out if there is a way to know which packages are reproducible. I would like to configure my guix to only fetch binaries that a sufficient number of people agree on to be deterministic - and for a start