Re: Status update on reproducible builds in Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:

> Yesteday we had a discussion about that on irc.
> Here it goes:
>
>
> [15:15:16] <g_bor> hello guix!
> [15:16:01] <g_bor> do we have a proposed way to build pyc files
> reproducibly?
> [15:16:50] <g_bor> I've read in the report, that we are not there yet, but
> is someone working on it?
> [15:17:58] <lfam> g_bor: This is the report you mention? <
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22533>
> [15:18:10] <lfam> I'm not sure if anyone has been working on it since the
> last message
> [15:20:26] * Guest74 has joined #guix
> [15:23:05] <g_bor> thx, just what i was looking for.
> [15:23:26] <lfam> It's possible that some work in this area is pending on
> the 'core-updates' Git branch, but I'm not sure
> [15:37:41] <mb[m]1> At this stage we might as well wait for this to land
> upstream: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0552/
>
> So, it seems, that we are waiting for this pep to land upstream.

Cool, thanks for the notification.

Now, I’d be in favor of incorporating a patch in the meantime, rather
than wait for the PEP to materialize.

I can’t find Debian’s patches in
<https://alioth.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/pkg-python/python3-defaults-debian/files/head:/debian/>,
but they probably have something.

Ludo’.