Hi, I'm currently trying to get reproducible barebox binaries.
One problem I'm facing is, that the barebox defaultenv generated during build depends on the filesystem used on the build machine. That is, because envfs_save() uses recursive_action(), which in turn uses readdir() without sorting the entries afterwards. quoting man readdir: The order in which filenames are read by successive calls to readdir() depends on the filesystem implementation; it is unlikely that the names will be sorted in any fashion. In fact, on ext4 I get a different barebox binary as on XFS. Is this considered something worth being fixed? It should be sufficient to build a list of directories and sort it before recursing. It is, however, shared code which is also used by the saveenv command and I'm not sure if malloc'ing recursively is a good idea on all targets where saveenv is used. I would go ahead and implement it if no one opposes. Should I introduce a flag for recursive_action() that allows taking an "unsorted" (non-malloc) code path for use with the saveenv command? - Florian _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
