Re: [Reproducible-builds] Cross-building across architectures (reproducibly?)

2016-01-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Steven, On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 09:03:21PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I've begun to analyze this now, using diffoscope to compare a stage1 > debootstrapped chroot of linux-i386, from official Debian packages vs. > my cross-built ones from kfreebsd-amd64. Note that there are public jenk

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Cross-building across architectures (reproducibly?)

2016-01-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > using Helmut's tool, I've been able to rebootstrap a minimal Debian > linux-i386 chroot (445 binary packages[3]). These were cross-compiled > from source, by only running kfreebsd-amd64 binaries on a FreeBSD > kernel, and having some Arch:all packages installed. I've b

[Reproducible-builds] Cross-building across architectures (reproducibly?)

2016-01-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I was going to introduce this topic, but it turned into an essay, so there is some background at: http://pyro.eu.org/writings/2016010100 The part most relevant to Reproducible Builds is: For arch-dependent binary packages, our latest breakthrough is that using Helmut's tool, I've been able