Building live images from snapshot.d.o

[Roland Clobus]

Hello lists,






One example deb file (my timezone is CET):

ls -l --time-style=+'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' libacl1_2.3.2-2+b1_amd64.deb
-> 2024-10-28 16:09:31

7z x libacl1_2.3.2-2+b1_amd64.deb
->
Path = data.tar.xz
Size = 31464
Modified = 2024-10-28 16:02:52



With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

My command lines (using the most recent git)

mv live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso ../archive.iso

mv live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso  ../snapshot.iso
cd ..
diffoscope archive.iso snapshot.iso --html archive_vs_snapshot.html

Recently I've started to look again at snapshot.debian.org as an alternative source for generating live images. I've adjusted the building script to make the images between builds as similar as possible, but now there 'only' some timestamps left. These timestamps are from .deb packages, which are downloaded with the --timestamping option enabled. However, the timestamps differ between deb.debian.org and snapshot.debian.org for files with the same content. Should I normalise the timestamp of the .deb files to the timestamp of data.tar.xz, while builing the live images? Or should this be solved 'upstream' in the Debian archive/snapshot archive to preserve/set the timestamps of the .deb files? reset;clear;$LIVE_BUILD/test/rebuild.sh --debian-version trixie --installer-origin archive --configuration standard --timestamp archive reset;clear;$LIVE_BUILD/test/rebuild.sh --debian-version trixie --installer-origin archive --configuration standard --timestamp snapshot

archive_vs_snapshot.html.gz
Description: application/gzip

OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature