On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote:
On 2/19/19 7:20 AM, Michael Lojkovic via arch-general wrote:
The only thing I can think of, which applies to Arch is implementing remakepkg features in pacman. I was going to add those in when I got around to it, but it's also worth doing for Google Summer of Code.
Author of remakepkg here. I think that adding such functionality to pacman would be a bit... backwards. The forum thread on remakepkg explains why it was originally written; I hope it is somewhat clear why such a tool or functionality shouldn't really exist to begin with.
remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i can tell.
The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of remakepkg were unclear to me, so I chose to simply ignore it. Reproducible builds were not taken into account, so it's indeed very likely that it breaks that. In the end, remakepkg is a hack. But the underlying concept itself is already a hack, so I'm not feeling too bad, to be honest :-) (that being said, I'm obviously open for discussing suggestions) Best, Tinu