Hi Ben, thanks for that document, I really enjoyed reading it! On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:53:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..4d988faf93b8 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst > @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ > +=================== > +Reproducible builds > +=================== > + > +It is generally desirable that the building the same source code with In this sentence, I think there is either one word to much (the first 'the') or some word is missing (e.h. 'of'). Kind regards, Nicolas > +the same set of tools is reproducible, i.e. the output is always > +exactly the same. This makes it possible to verify that the build > +infrastructure for a binary distribution or embedded system has not > +been subverted. This can also make it easier to verify that a source > +or tool change does not make any difference to the resulting binaries. -- epost: nicolas@xxxxxxxxx irc://oftc.net/nsc ↳ gpg: 18ed 52db e34f 860e e9fb c82b 7d97 0932 55a0 ce7f -- frykten for herren er opphav til kunnskap --
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