The Reproducible Build Zoo - Vagrant Cascadian, Aikidev, LLC
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-02-28

The Reproducible Build Zoo - Vagrant Cascadian, Aikidev, LLC

The Reproducible Builds Project works to make it possible to produce bit-for-bit identical builds of software, enabling the ability to independently verify the results of a given build of software. A major part of this work is automated rebuilds of software, including Debian's 24,000+ source packages...

In late 2015, the Reproducible Builds project started building packages for Debian's armhf architecture, using a build farm which eventually grew into a diverse network of over twenty systems running on consumer-grade arm boards.

This talk will be a guided tour of the relatively low-power ARM build zoo, including some of the technologies used to manage it, and adventures in mainline linux and u-boot support in Debian for the hardware used.

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org

About Vagrant Cascadian
Vagrant Cascadian is a free software developer and Debian developer, and has worked to enable Linux kernel, u-boot and debian-installer support for a number ARM boards in Debian. In recent years, Vagrant has been a system administrator for an ARM build farm for the Reproducible Builds Project.

Vagrant has given an "Introduction to Reproducible Builds" talk at SeaGL 2016, and the "Many ARMed monster of Reproducibility" at Debconf16, and a wide variety of lightning talks over the years.

Vagrant consults on a variety of free software projects as Aikidev, LLC, which integrates concepts of the martial art of Aikido into software development.

https://reproducible-builds.org
https://osem.seagl.org/conference/seagl2016/program/proposal/166
https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/19/
https://www.aikidev.net