Re: Reproducible builds of ports

> This is completely impossible for any operating system package 
> distribution. "Functionally" is the best you can get. 

I just wanted to clarify, perhaps what I wrote wasn't exactly clear in 
regard to what I am trying to achieve.


My "humble" initial goal is to either:

1. Rebuild a package locally, compare it to upstream, record whether the 
result is the same or not, output statistics. I want to do this for a 
subset of ports initially. I am aware about the issues with timestamps, 
worker hostnames etc, these all needs to be addressed in the process.

2. Alternatively, freeze my local tree to a specific commit, build a 
package twice, see if the result is the same.


Whether I get a 1% success rate or 90% success rate is besides the point 
for me personally at this stage, I just want to collect the information.
Getting the whole ports tree reproducible is probably a decades long 
project if anyone wanted to do it (e.g. Debian efforts).


I got some encouraging information regarding at least the second 
scenario so I definitely got some good feedback so far.


Best regards