Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 10:53 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 1/22/2019 7:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Alternatively, we could make pigz a strict build requirement but > > > that sounds a little antisocial. > > Right. > In what way do you consider this antisocial and what's speaking > against

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Philipp, > > > Alternatively, we could make pigz a strict build requirement but > > > that sounds a little antisocial. > > > > Right. > > In what way do you consider this antisocial and what's speaking against > doing that? I was using this word in a somewhat romantic sense; fewer dependencies

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Cyril, > I think I'd prefer closing this very bug report whenever what's in > git gets uploaded That would definitely work for me. Indeed, it would probably help separate discussions/issues correctly as any followups are likely = to be much more specific. > half the build time is spent

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 1/22/2019 7:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Alternatively, we could make pigz a strict build requirement but >> that sounds a little antisocial. > Right. In what way do you consider this antisocial and what's speaking against doing that? If it's about CPU time, then maybe it should obey the

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Chris, Chris Lamb (2019-01-21): > > That's looking good but I'm seeing new warnings because of gzip's > > being unhappy about the GZIP environment variable. > > Interesting. However when you say "new" warnings I don't believe my > patch set actually added/changed this; indeed, it has not

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Cyril, Thank you for your review and timely merge. > That's looking good but I'm seeing new warnings because of gzip's being > unhappy about the GZIP environment variable. Interesting. However when you say "new" warnings I don't believe my patch set actually added/changed this; indeed, it

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2019-01-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 pending Cyril Brulebois (2019-01-19): > The mini.iso has apparently other changes… I'm attaching the diffoscope > output. Could this be because of missing tweaks to the xorriso calls in > build/config/x86.cfg? (In which case build/config/arm.cfg might need an > update as well.)

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2019-01-19): > Back to d-i results: I'm seeing small differences in the generated > -images tarball, that I'll try to investigate. I'll probably push the > series anyway, as these patches are helping anyway. :) Here are the differences I'm seeing by building multiple times in

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Chris, Chris Lamb (2019-01-19): > > * 0c19a29645a6a3136f3a51da5d5cf1cfcec5fdfb mentions file system > >ordering only, but that's just the sort part > > I've split this commit and it is much clearer now. Perfect, thanks. > > * 71391967763708055a65ed68999db8f4ea6fc6e6 sets “deb1”

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-19 Thread Chris Lamb
[Keeping Kibi in CC as requested off-list, dropping mtools@p.d.o] Dear Kibi, First, thank you so much for your review. I believe I have resolve all of your issues on the corresponding merge request, as well as rebasing it against the current master:

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Chris, First off: Thanks a lot for your work, and for your patience. Chris Lamb (2019-01-12): > I would dearly love to have reproducible installer images for buster > and indeed this would be a good thing to provide and offer, let alone > announce in the release notes, etc. > > Now that

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2019-01-12 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed > that debian-installer's images were not reproducible. > > I have created merge request #3 [1] on salsa with a patch series > to address this. > > [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ > [1]

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2018-07-12 Thread Chris Lamb
On 11th June 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > > mtools: please make the output reproducible (uninitialised memory) > > mtools: please make the output reproducible (directory timestamps) > > I'd dearly love to ensure there are no blockers to making the Debian > Installer images to be reproducible well

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2018-06-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Anibal, > mtools: please make the output reproducible (uninitialised memory) > mtools: please make the output reproducible (directory timestamps) I'd dearly love to ensure there are no blockers to making the Debian Installer images to be reproducible well in advance of the «buster» release.

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2018-06-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Control: block 900918 by 900409 900410 This requires fixes to mtools, marked as blocking bugs. live well, vagrant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

2018-06-06 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that debian-installer's images were not