This package can do a deterministic build of a package inside a VM.
## Deterministic build inside a VM
This performs a build inside a VM, with deterministic inputs and outputs. If the build script takes care of all sources of non-determinism (mostly caused by timestamps), the result will always be the same. This allows multiple independent verifiers to sign a binary with the assurance that it really came from the source they reviewed.
`make-base-vm` cannot yet make VirtualBox virtual machines ( _patches welcome_, it should be possible to use `VBoxManage`, boot-from-network Linux images and PXE booting to do it). So you must either get or manually create VirtualBox machines that:
Where `<signer>` is your signing PGP key ID and `<release-name>` is the name for the current release. This will put the result and signature in the `sigs/<package>/<release-name>`. The `sigs/<package>` directory can be managed through git to coordinate multiple signers.
`bin/gbuild` runs `lxc-start`, which may require root. If you are in the admin group, you can add the following sudoers line to prevent asking for the password every time:
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/lxc-start
Recent distributions allow lxc-start to be run by non-priviledged users, so you might be able to rip-out the `sudo` calls in `libexec/*`.
If you have a runaway `lxc-start` command, just use `kill -9` on it.