Arch Reproducible Progress July 2021

Posted on zo 01 augustus 2021 in arch linux • Tagged with arch linux, reproducible builds

At the end of July, I had some days off and some more time to focus on some unreproducible packages in Arch Linux and get some of the issues resolved. This post goes through the resolved issues by category.

gzipped man pages

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Mini DebConf Hamburg 2019

Posted on do 20 juni 2019 in Reproducible Builds • Tagged with Reproducible Builds, Arch Linux, Debian

The reproducible builds project was invited to join the mini DebConf Hamburg sprints and conference part. I attended with the intention to get together to work on Arch Linux reproducible test setup improvements, reproducing more packages and comparing results.

The first improvement was adding JSON status output for Arch Linux …


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Arch Linux @ Reproducible Build Summit Paris

Posted on do 13 december 2018 in Arch Linux, Reproducible Builds • Tagged with Arch Linux, Reproducible Builds

Write up of the reproducible summit

Three members of the Arch Linux team attended the Reproducible Build Summit 2018 in Paris this week to work together with the reproducible ecosystem to work on reproducible build issues. The other participants where from a lot of different projects and companies such as …


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Arch monthly November

Posted on vr 08 december 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with TU, Reproducible builds, GCC

New TU Andrew Crerar

Andrew Crerar applied to become a Trusted User and was accepted! Congratulations! His intentions is to move firefox-develop from the AUR to [community]

77% Reproducible packages

Currently 77% of the packages are reproducible, note that we do not vary everything yet in the two builds. For …


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