Holger Levsen
Holger Levsen has been a Debian user since more than 30 years and an official Debian member since 2007. In the years since 2001 he has been contributing to Debian in many areas, probably most notably with the DebConf (video) team, piuparts.debian.org and Reproducible Builds, which has become his main focus in 2014. Since then he has set up automated reproducibility testing for Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and coreboot. Which since then has been obsoleted somewhat and also has sparked reproduce.debian.net.
Accepted Talks:
reproduce.debian.net - rebuilding what is distributed from ftp.debian.org
reproduce.debian.net attempts to bit-for-bit identically rebuild each Debian binary package found in the distribution archive, using the .buildinfo file produced when the buildd originally built the package. This talk will describe the current status of the setup, some current challenges and plans for the future.
This talk will not explain the basic ideas behind Reproducible Builds and why they are desirable, as this has been covered in many talks and workshops since DebConf13, see https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/history/ for how it all started and maybe watch the talk from DebConf24 as well.
Setup rebuilderd and rebuilderd-worker on *your* hardware
You have seen https://reproduce.debian.net and now want to setup another instance running on your own hardware, to confirm the results shown on https://reproduce.debian.net ?!?
That’s great and this workshop is for you as we’ll do exactly this.
Hardware needed: at least 1-2 modern systems with at least 300GB diskspace in total, better 1 TB. The more cores and RAM, the better. Software needed: trixie or better. all required software is in trixie main.