Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Tue Aug 15 18:05:29 UTC 2017


On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 03:34:35PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>...
> +Reproducibility
> +---------------
> +
> +Packages should build reproducibly, which for the purposes of this
> +document [#]_ means that given
> +
> +- a version of a source package unpacked at a given path;
> +- a set of versions of installed build dependencies;
> +- a set of environment variable values;
> +- a build architecture; and
> +- a host architecture,
>...

Is identical building on any kernel required (and tested)?

Examples:

A self-compiled kernel with CONFIG_IPV6=n

Imagine the next time Linus changes the kernel versioning,
he chooses <year>.<month>.<revision>
Will every reproducible package in buster build identical on the
bullseye+1 kernel 2022.11.321 ? [1]

> Sean Whitton

cu
Adrian

[1] the wheezy LTS updates are now built on buildds running stretch
    kernels, and in buster we will have the similar situation that
    nearly everyting in the initial release will be built on stretch
    kernels while post-release updates will be built on buster,
    bullseye and bullseye+1 kernels

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