Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible

Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by Foxboron on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:03PM (#27574620)

Indeed, and with the work done by Guix and the Reproducible Builds project we do have a real-world example of diverse double compilation which is not just a toy example utilizing the GNU Mes C compiler.

https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/#real-world

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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by dane-pgp on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:52PM (#27574874)

Projects like GNU Mes are part of the Bootstrappable Builds effort[0]. Another great achievement in that area is the live-bootstrap project, which has automated a build pipeline that goes from a minimal binary seed up to tinycc then gcc 4 and beyond.[1]

[0] https://www.bootstrappable.org/

[1] https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by Foxboron on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:56PM (#27574903)

I feel the need to point out that the "Bootstrappable Builds" project is a working group from a Reproducible Builds project which where interested in the next step beyond reproducing binaries. Obviously this project has seen most effort from Guix :)

The GNU Mes C experiment mentioned above was also conducted during the 2019 Reproducible Builds summit in Marrakesh.

https://reproducible-builds.org/events/Marrakesh2019/

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