Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Trying to fix random_buildpath_by_octave

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de> [2015-10-26 07:25]:
> According to [3] the build log will be considered in the build id, 
> because the text suggests that log files should not differ.
>
> You could start by either normalizing or suppressing the output of the 
> temppath.
>
> 3. https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Contribute#Fixing_issues

Thanks for the suggestion, Oliver.

I think that the patch attached below will do the normalization that you 
mention, by replacing all instances of '/tmp/oct-*' by the tag 
'[tmp-build-dir]' in the build log.

Should I commit this patch?

Rafael

diff --git a/octave-pkg.mk b/octave-pkg.mk
index 1ed2d46..8b60813 100644
--- a/octave-pkg.mk
+++ b/octave-pkg.mk
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ install-pkg:
 		 if (exist ('PKG_ADD.bak') == 2),			\
 		     movefile ('PKG_ADD.bak', 'PKG_ADD');		\
 		 endif;							\
-		 pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."
+		 pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."			\
+	    | sed 's:/tmp/oct-[a-zA-Z0-9]\{6\}:[tmp-build-dir]:g'
 	$(shrpkg)/dh/octave-pkg-helper
 	dh_install --package=$(package)