Re: [Reproducible-builds] concrete steps for improving apt downloading security and privacy

2014-09-22 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 22.09.14 um 01:52 schrieb Paul Wise: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: A package with some new signatures added is no more the old package. That is exactly what we do *not* want for reproducible builds. It should have a different checksum and be made

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#762433: lsof: please stop capturing environment information during the build process

2014-09-22 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Source: lsof Version: 4.86+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps username hostname uname Hi! As part of the “reproducible builds” project, we have identified that lsof build process captured too much information about its

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#762397: libgpg-error: please do not capture the current time during the build process

2014-09-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/21/2014 04:58 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:45:14PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: As part of the “reproducible builds” effort [1], it was detected that libgpg-error could not be built reproducibly. The build process capture the time of the build. This piece of

Re: [Reproducible-builds] concrete steps for improving apt downloading security and privacy

2014-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Am 22.09.14 um 01:52 schrieb Paul Wise: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: A package with some new signatures added is no more the old package. That is exactly what we do *not* want for reproducible builds. It should have a different

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#762397: libgpg-error: please do not capture the current time during the build process

2014-09-22 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Jeroen Dekkers: Jérémy actually already wrote a patch for dpkg-buildpackage to export DEB_BUILD_TIMESTAMP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=75 But if we want to push these things upstream, wouldn't it be better to remove the DEB_ prefix from the name of the

Re: [Reproducible-builds] faketime by default?

2014-09-22 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hans-Christoph Steiner: I've been using faketime in my work on reproducible builds on Android (both native C code and Java), and it has been working well. It seems to me that the current approach in Debian does not use faketime. Since so much of the little issues are due to timestamps, it