Finding merged /usr bugs through reproducible builds?

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Sun Nov 6 19:38:24 UTC 2016


Hi,

could you change the reproducible builds to find bugs like #843433, 
ideally with a rebuild of everything that is currently building 
reproducibly?

If one of the builds would use merged /usr and the other would not,
then bugs like #843433 should show up as difference in the build.

Thanks
Adrian

BTW: #843433 might not be found this way due to systemd not building
     reproducible, but similar bugs in many other packages could be 
     found this way.

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