[Reproducible-builds] Adding a flag to apt to only allow installation of packages that have reproducible builds

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Francis,

On Samstag, 27. Februar 2016, francismb wrote:
> first thanks for bringing that "reproducible" idea to debian.

:-)
 
> I've a question: why is not possible to add a flag to apt to only allow
> the installation of packages that have reproducible builds. Please see:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816012
> 
> Isn't the metadata already there or is the feature request on the false
> package/place?

there are no reproducible packages in Debian at all so far… that's why.

reproducible.debian.net is showing _theoretical_ things, for these to become 
reality in practice a few more patches need to be merged (and some changes to 
the infrastricture are needed too). This is documented in the Debian wiki 
pages about Reproducible builds.


cheers,
	Holger
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