----- Forwarded message from Maxim Kammerer <mk@dee.su> ----- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:33:37 +0300 From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@dee.su> To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM, <phreedom@yandex.ru> wrote:

[1] http://nixos.org/nixos/

A very interesting project! Does the following:

Packages are never overwritten after they have been built; instead, if you change the build description of a package (its ‘Nix expression’), it’s rebuilt and installed in a different path in /nix/store so it doesn’t interfere with the old version.

mean that upgrading a library due to e.g. security fixes requires recompiling all packages that depend on it? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5