Bastian Blank: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:46:45AM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > The first patch adds call to `dh_strip_nondeterminism` and > > `dh_fixmtimes`, both being part of the custom toolchain currently used > > for reproducible builds. Hence not tagging the bug with “patch” until > > they are integrated in debhelper. > > Why does this need new tool instead of being integrated into the > existing ones?
I am not sure which ones you specifically have in mind, but the whole
project is still at the experimental stage. We try to work in
unintrusive ways.
> > The second patch changes the value of KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP to a
> > timestamp parseable by `date`.
>
> Well, no. The string is this way for a reason.
Would a patch against `scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh` to make it parse
Debian's KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP be acceptable then? Any other
suggestions?
> > An unclear aspect is where to add a call to `dh_genbuildinfo` which
> > generates the .buildinfo [2]. It should be called after all binary
> > packages have been created.
>
> Not possible, dh_* acts on single binary packages.
Mh… I'm not sure we had realized that. It makes a case to move the
generation of the .buildinfo closer to dpkg-genchanges.
> > * linux-source: mtimes of many files differ. Would it be ok to just
> > create the tarball with a single timestamp (`tar --mtime=`)?
>
> Looks like a way.
Good. :) I will experiment with this approach and probably add another
patch to this bug report.
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