On Thu, 2023-08-10 at 17:27 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Thu 10. Aug 2023 at 17.10, Richard Purdie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-08-10 at 16:57 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > I don’t follow i am afraid. How would having separate usr expose
> > > issues that merged usr would hide?
> > 
> > Most host systems are moving over to merged usr. If host paths to a
> > binary were to creep in (e.g. the path to a tool, /usr/bin/xxx),
> > our
> > non usrmerge config would be more likely to generate a
> > reproducibility
> > mismatch than one with usrmerge enabled.
> 
> But then it would creep into both build A and build B since both
> would come from the same host or two hosts both with usrmerge, and
> there would be no mismatch. No?

True, I'm thinking of something slightly different.

I'm thinking having usrmerge disabled makes it more likely we'd notice
a "bad" tool path creeping into builds rather than the case where the
host and target share the same paths. That isn't a reproducibility
case, more a general one.

Cheers,

Richard
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