[liberationtech] Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise

[Maxim Kammerer]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM,  <phreedom at 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?

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Maxim Kammerer
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