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Re:NixCon Live by the_duke on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:15AM (#24801625)
True, which is absolutely sufficient for most use cases.

I'm currently doing some work for ML and data science companies where full reproducibility and introspection is very much desired.

So you need to run your own source cache to provide that guarantee, because you can't count on cache.nixos.org still providing the source code from a package built 4 years ago.

But that's why I love the IPFS cache efforts. [1] Running your own node to pin all required sources should then be relatively easy.

[1] https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-08-nix-ipfs-milestone-1/

Re:NixCon Live by ryukafalz on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:28AM (#24801759)
Software Heritage is also helpful here, and Guix is integrating with it - see e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deplo...
Re:NixCon Live by danieldk on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:28PM (#24802994)
Nix is also integrating with the Software Heritage:

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-18-software-heritage/

Re:NixCon Live by est31 on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:30AM (#24801789)
Debian's archive reaches back 15 years now: https://snapshot.debian.org/

It also contains source code.