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
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 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 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

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

2018-06-10 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