Holger Levsen has been a Debian user for 20 years and started contributing 15 years ago. He got involved in doing QA work on Debian in 2007 via first working on piuparts, which led him to start https://jenkins.debian.net in 2012. At the end of 2013 he had the idea to use this jenkins setup and a small script to build some packages twice and compare the results. That's how he got involved in Reproducible Builds in the beginning and which eventually lead to his work being founded by the Linux Foundation since 2014.
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Full title: Reproducible Builds - We Made Lots of Progress in Many Places, But We're Still Far From Our Goals of Changing the (Software) World
Reproducible builds enable everyone to verify that a given binary is made from the source it is claimed to be made from, by enabling anyone to create bit by bit identical binaries.
This talk will report on the state of reproducible builds in various distributions (Debian, Archlinux, coreboot, F-Droid, Fedora, FreeBSD, Guix, NetBSD, OpenW… Read more
Schedule:
- Sunday, Aug 27th, 2017, 19:30 (CEST) - Sunday, Aug 27th, 2017, 20:30 (CEST)