(Putting submitter back into the loop…) Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> (2015-05-18): > On Sonntag, 25. Januar 2015, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Three problems were identified that made building unreproducible: > > > - gzipped files had embedded timestamps (prevented with gzip -n) > > > - several Perl scripts iterated over the keys of hashes to produce > > > > > > output, which is not a deterministic operation (solved by sorting). > > > > > > - Fonts/bdf2psf uses random numbers for undefined glyphs. To be > > > > > > able to reproduce the same font files, a fixed seed is used. > > > > > > The attached patch fixes those problems. Once applied, console-setup > > > can be built reproducibly in our current experimental framework. > > > > Thanks for your efforts on reproducibility, and for the patch. > > > > It looks a bit too much to consider at this time of the freeze, so it'll > > probably be considered after jessie is out. Feel free to ping when that > > happens. > > ping. Feel free to push, but I'd prefer a split into logical patches (-n vs. sort vs. srand) to have happened beforehand. > btw, I assume you have seen it on planet, but in case you haven't, there is > https://reproducible.debian.net/unstable/amd64/pkg_set_maint_debian-boot.htm > now. Mraw, KiBi.
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