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#56
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Sorry but that's just silly. For at least two reasons:
1) A checksum match can only guarantee that the compiled binary matches the supplied sources. Not that the sources are safe and do not contain some hidden gems.
2) A checksum is not going to match anyway. At least in my experience, every time I build something I get a slightly different binary. The compiler embeds things like the build date/time etc.
Simplified, yes. There needs to be a reproducable build method, which will result in matching checksums. Or other verifiable methods.

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Last edited by nieldk; 2018-05-06 at 05:30.
 

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