[blog] 01/01: 92: link to https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-January/000309.html - reproducible builds in the early 1990s

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Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 25 11:53:49 2017 +0100

    92: link to https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-January/000309.html - reproducible builds in the early 1990s
    
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
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+Toolchain development and stuff
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+John Gilmore wrote an interesting mail about how cygnus.com worked on reproducible builds, as in bit-by-bit identical ones, in the [early 1990s](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-January/000309.html). It's eye opening to see how the dealt with basically the very same problems we're dealing with today, how they solved them and then to realize, that most of this has been forgotten and bit-rotted in the last 20 years. How will we prevent history repeating itself here?
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 tests.r-b.o:
 	- h01ger experimented with reusing ssh control connections, but stopped that experiment when we ran into more network issues than before. To be continued, as we'll have several 10k ssh connections per day and saving 2 seconds each time would sum up, especially on the jenkins host itself.
 	- h01ger made the scheduler run 3 times a day, 2.5h after dinstall runs, instead of every 3h before.
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