Just stumbled upon “Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Time” by Malka, npub15shcjr2p4d7wszc5u92tht6zj5pafzcp20cx3gtg59cnlz4rapfsxv620m (npub15sh…620m), and Zimmermann:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00424
Abstract reads: “we show that we are able […] to rebuild 99.94% of the 14 thousand packages from a 6-year-old Nixpkgs revision.”
Section 3.2 clarify that claims though: “We use the Nix cache [pre-built binaries] extensively in this step.” Not relying on pre-built binaries “would be a much more difficult achievement”.
#Nix #Guix
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