[Reproducible-builds] please don't build on archs that packages don't declare support for

[Michael R. Crusoe]

It looks fixed on my end; thanks!

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/rb-pkg/testing/armhf/khmer.html

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:13 PM Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > I think bin/reproducible_build.sh makes a too broad assumption, that
> > packages producing arch:all parts can build on "any" arch.
>
> indeed
>
> > dpkg-buildpackage proceeds, I think, because there are arch-indep parts
> > that 'might' be able to build.  But since this package has no separate
> > binary-indep target, debian/rules tries to build the arch-dep parts
> > and fails there.
>
> indeed
>
> > The code has been much refactored since then.  Does my patch below seem
> > a neat way to try to fix this again?  (Though I totally have not tested
> > it).
>
> I think it does.
>
> > Where I set ARCHITECTURES="any", that will not be a regression over
> > current behaviour, but can be substituted for ARCHITECTURES="amd64" if
> > too many arch:all packages FTBFS on armhf.
> >
> > From a759d049b1fd6deeb24985e57a3b6f4fa2e1f72b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Chamberlain <steven at pyro.eu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:02:13 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] reproducible: don't always build arch:all on "any" arch
> >
> > If a package builds arch-dep parts on a restricted set of arches,
> > don't assume the arch-indep parts can build on "any" arch.
> >
> > If a package *only* lists Architecture: all, keep the current behaviour:
> > (linux-)amd64 will most likely work;  armhf is less likely but is nice
> > to try anyway.
>
> I've applied and deployed this patch now, thanks Steven! Currently
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/unstable/amd64/index_not_for_us.html
> lists 84 packages, I'm curious how many there will be listed in a week ;-)
>
> For comparison in 42 days or so: https://tests.reproducible-
> builds.org/unstable/armhf/index_not_for_us.html today lists 235 packages.
>
>
> cheers,
>         Holger
>
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