On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 08:04:29PM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 07:41:24PM +0100, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > But related to that I found various posts. One mentioned using a > > seeded random number so that builds were deterministic. Having > > suffered from a lack of entropy last year (on some of my machines > > with SSDs, not enough entropy to run all my BLFS bootscripts - > > solved by adding weak entropy from haveged), and given general > > upstream efforts to harden builds and increase randomness, I think > > that the "can it build itself" tests might be possible, but only in > > a very constrained environment where special measures are taken to > > see randomness. However, the problem of building one package > > To _seed_ randomness > > > repeatably is somewhat simpler than building the base LFS system > > repeatably, and that might be impractical. > > > A better tool (Python, GPL3) might be 'diffoscope'. https://diffoscope.org/
Git is at https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope but I'm not sure about any working links to released tarballs. ĸen -- With a few red lights, a few old bits, we made the place to sweat. No matter what we get out of this, I know, I know we'll never forget. Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky. Smoke, on the water. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
