[pacman-dev] [RFC PATCH] makepkg: extend the .BUILDINFO for enhanced reproducible support

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 18 22:15:16 UTC 2018


On 07/18/2018 06:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 19/07/18 02:12, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> Encode information about the compiler and strip flags used, as these
>> will impact the resulting generated binaries.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
>> ---
>>
> 
> Fairly sure we already rejected this...  The assumption is that a
> distribution is using the default makepkg.conf options unless they are
> explicitly changed in the PKGBUILD.

I don't recall where we rejected this?

Anyway, reproducibility is not just about reproducing packages created
by devtools. It would be nice to be able to reproduce any package. :)

It's also been noted on IRC that we could use it to detect packages
built with an *old* makepkg.conf in devtools chroots.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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