Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All the Time

Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by nkurz on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:51PM (#11137348)

Then how can you get into the situation that the shipped binary packages can't be built with the shipped toolchain or shipped dependencies

I think that Matthew might be suggesting that not all packages are rebuilt with every release? A binary package might be compiled with GCC-4, then the distribution is upgraded to GCC-5, dropping GCC-4. If for some reason the package is not compatible with the new compiler, you would then be in a situation where the binary cannot be recreated from source without outside tools. Do you know if Canonical recompiles everything on each update to the toolchain?

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by lmm on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:51AM (#11149708)

I have no specific knowledge about Canonical's processes. I'm just amazed that a serious software company in 2016 wouldn't have a reproducible build process for their primary product.

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