On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 February 2018 at 23:54, Petr Viktorin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Honestly, I'm not sure we want to use this in Fedora. Is anyone here into
>> reproducible builds, to make a better argument for this?
>
> I believe rpmbuild (et al) all set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the
> environment, so Fedora's likely to get the new CHECKED_HASH behaviour
> by default: 
> https://docs.python.org/dev/library/py_compile.html#py_compile.compile
>
> Given that SELinux typically won't allow user applications to rewrite
> the bytecode anyway, we may want to specify the use of UNCHECKED_HASH
> at build time instead - with that setting, Python will ignore source
> file changes entirely, and trust that RPM will keep the source and pyc
> files consistent.
>

We have not set this to be on in Fedora. It's still switched off by
default. To the best of my knowledge, the only distribution doing it
so far is openSUSE.

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