Re: Reproducible Builds Summit 2022, nar support in diffoscope

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> One thing I forgot to tell Efraim about is that I got around to looking
> at nar support in diffoscope. I know this isn't essential as you can
> just unpack the nars, then compare (as I think guix challenge does), but
> I've been thinking this could make it easier to compare nars.
>
> Anyway, as part of this I proposed adding lzip support, since nars can
> be lzipped, that turned out to be quite easy:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/-/merge_requests/106
>
> I'm finding nar support a bit harder though, I've raised a merge request
> anyway to see if I can get any feedback:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/-/merge_requests/107

Nice!  It’s good if that eventually allows ‘guix challenge’ to delegate
that to diffoscope.

Ludo’.