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Request to use GNU guix reproducibility bugs data for research project |
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zimoun |
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Request to use GNU guix reproducibility bugs data for research project | University of Waterloo |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:01:51 +0100 |
Hi,
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 16:48, Muhammad Hassan <muhammad.hassan@uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:
> I would like to scrap reproducibility bugs data from the linked
> website to use in my research project that is being conducted at the
> University of Waterloo. I am a Master's student.
Nice! Thank for your interest to Guix.
> The project aims to provide automated support for non-reproducibility
> detection.
Non-reproducibility can be large. Against which one are you working?
> Please tell me if there is an API that I can use to scrap the data.
For instance, “guix build --no-substitutes” followed by “guix build
--check” allows you to locally build and rebuild for checking if the
build is reproducible – bitwise speaking. Then, “guix challenge” allows
to check your local builds against the build-farm. Note that two
build-farms are available [1,2] for various architectures.
The Guix project runs a Data Service to collect various data. This
service serves a JSON API (not-really documented but roaming on IRC
#guix helps ;-)). One year ago (already, damned!), a tiny and drafty
script to somehow get the reproducibility coverage was around [3]. I
have not worked on it since then and I do not know if it still works.
Perhaps, it might be an entry-point for working on reproducibility data
from Guix.
Feel free to ask more details.
1: <http://ci.guix.gnu.org/>
2: <http://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/>
3: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-10/msg00181.html>
Hope that helps,
simon
PS: I close the issue since it is not one, IIUC. Instead, let redirect
to the mailing list guix-devel which seems a better place for discussing
such request. :-)
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