Sorry, I think my use of "artifact" here caused some confusion.
Each of these "artifacts" are actual isolated builds of complicated programs such as Chromium or GCC. The technical term is "derivation", which produce "outputs".
All of those packages can be reproduced from source now or 100 years into the future and SHOULD produce the exact same binary output. If they don't, it's a bug.
Each of these "artifacts" are actual isolated builds of complicated programs such as Chromium or GCC. The technical term is "derivation", which produce "outputs".
All of those packages can be reproduced from source now or 100 years into the future and SHOULD produce the exact same binary output. If they don't, it's a bug.