[Reproducible-builds] Bug#833340: mini-buildd: please make the build reproducible

[Boyuan Yang]

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2016-08-03 20:14 GMT+08:00 Chris Lamb :
> - default=os.getenv("HOME"),
> + default="$HOME",
>
> Unless I'm missing something, this won't work as $VARS are not expanded
> in Python..
>
> (What you probably want to do is set the default to ~/.mini-buildd and
> patch the callsites to use os.path.expanduser at "real" runtime.)

I intended to use "$HOME" string literally since I did not come up
with a better solution. :-(

The original author used os.getenv() in python argparse, so the output
of `mini-buildd --help' really depend on $HOME env var. Unfortunately
the man page is generated using help2man (or similar tool) [1] during
building process and reproducible build website will alter $HOME env
var to test reproducibility. So in my opinion there is no better
option except fixed text string. Mini-buildd script won't and
shouldn't detect if itself is running for help2man or for end-user.

[1] 
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/armhf/diffoscope-results/mini-buildd.html

Thanks,
Boyuan

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Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#833340: mini-buildd: please make the build reproducible

[Holger Levsen]

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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:20:47PM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Source: mini-buildd
> Version: 1.0.16
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch

thanks for filing this bug with patch! If you plan to file further such
bugs in future, please also usertag them when filing those, as this will
make sure they turn up on our radar automatically, also they will be
included in our weekly blog posts.

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Contribute#How_to_report_bugs
explain how to use usertags for reproducible builds.

and really: thanks for filing this bug at all! :)


-- 
cheers,
Holger


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