Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds

[Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>]

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Hi Ben,

thanks for that document, I really enjoyed reading it!

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:53:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
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> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4d988faf93b8
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> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
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> +===================
> +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.


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