Re: [tor-talk] Deterministic Builds - was: Bridge Communities?

[Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:44 PM, adrelanos <adrelanos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I assume you're the Gregory Disney who is also one builder of those
> Bitcoin deterministic builds? Since you're involved in Tor as well, I
> seems to me you could be a great help by providing some information
> about the Bitcoin build process.

There is no Gregory Disney involved with Bitcoin as far as I know.

> Where are the instructions how I (or someone else) not involved in
> Bitcoin development can produce bit identical builds of Bitcoin to match
> the hash sums which are also distribiuted on sourceforge? If there are
> none, could you provide them please?

They're included with the source:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-process.txt
and
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors

> Can their system be applied for Tor as well or are there any differences?

Yes. It may take a little jiggling to get the builds to actually be
deterministic for any particular package, but they should be
applicable to anything.
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