Booting ARM Linux the standard way

Post by octoberfranklin » Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

LanternLight83 wrote: post #24

edgyquant wrote: post #21

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What’s the difference between a reproducible binary and one they’ve built themselves? Can’t they just build it from source and check that the digests match?

I mean heck, since it's a Nix Package, couldn't they just build it with Nix as the build system? And if for any reason that is the issue (installing Nix on a foreign distros can be pretty invasive, containerized?), the recipe for how to build it is right there.

Post by edgyquant » Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

octoberfranklin wrote: post #31

LanternLight83 wrote: post #24

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I mean heck, since it's a Nix Package, couldn't they just build it with Nix as the build system? And if for any reason that is the issue (installing Nix on a foreign distros can be pretty invasive, containerized?), the recipe for how to build it is right there.

> installing Nix on a foreign distros can be pretty invasive Is this some kind of joke? Installing nix on a non-nixOS computer doesn't even require root. You can even bootstrap the entirety of nixpkgs that way. That's one of the most awesome things about nix and nixpkgs.