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jronald

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Registered: 2022-05-09

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[SOLVED] What makes a package unreproducible?

According to https://reproducible.archlinux.org/,
about 10% of packages are not reproducible.

According to https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/,
"A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts."

What's the reason?

Last edited by jronald (2024-04-09 05:39:48)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] What makes a package unreproducible?

There's a lot of reasons. Build time hardware detection, build or modified dates built in, randomization built in, even locale issues, etc.