I want a spec for providing metadata defining which artifacts should go into a build and how to build it, and multiple implementations of that spec, and the ability to deploy different implementations to different cloud vendors using SEV to attest to the boot state, and then verify that all these different implementations in different environments generate identical outputs so we can avoid having to place arbitrary trust in our build systems
Could some startup just take a bag of money from someone and do this for me
@mjg59 unfortunately when you combine that with package management systems you get https://xkcd.com/927/
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@landley @mjg59 i mean "how to build" kind of implies a script anyway doesn't it
@aep @landley @mjg59 It is called Makefile.
@jyrgenn @aep @mjg59 "Autoconf is useless" may be sung to "every sperm is sacred".