[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

[Eli Schwartz]

On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote:
>> 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)

I see no problem and nothing to fix here. reproducible rebuilding a
.pkg.tar.xz created by remakepkg, which has as its whole purpose,
surgery upon a package, seems fundamentally unreproducible to me,
moreover why would you want to reproduce it -- a reproducible rebuild of
remakepkg packages should have as its only input, the original .pkg.tar.xz

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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