[Reproducible-commits] [blog] 01/01: 69: improve build path variation explaination wording

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Tue Aug 23 08:53:39 UTC 2016


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commit 773c1c1d9ec5893eaea30e27eb2c055813ab53c1
Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 23 10:53:30 2016 +0200

    69: improve build path variation explaination wording
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 drafts/69.mdwn | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/69.mdwn b/drafts/69.mdwn
index 4c56655..d80dc6d 100644
--- a/drafts/69.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/69.mdwn
@@ -182,9 +182,11 @@ The last change probably will have an impact you will see: your package might be
 
 We've done this, because we think reproducible builds are possible with arbitrary build paths. But: we don't think those are a realistic goal for *stretch*, where we still recommend to use ´.buildinfo´ to record the build patch and then do rebuilds using that path.
 
-We are doing this, because besides doing theoretical groundwork we also have a practical goal: enable users to independently verify builds. And if they only can do this with a fixed path, so be it. For now :)
+We are doing this, because besides doing theoretical groundwork we also have a practical goal: enable users to independently verify builds. And if they only can do this with a fixed path, so be it. For now :) 
 
-For future reference, when we enabled build path variation on Saturday, August 20th 2016, the number for *unstable* were:
+To be clear: for Stretch we recommend that reproducible builds are done in the same build path as the "original" build.
+
+Finally, and just for our future references, when we enabled build path variation on Saturday, August 20th 2016, the numbers for *unstable* were:
 
 	suite		all 	reproducible 	unreproducible	ftbfs		depwait		not for this arch blacklisted
 	unstable/amd64	24693 	21794 / 88.2%	1753 / 7.1%	972 / 3.9%	65 / .2%	95 / .3%	10 / 0%

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