Hello Luca,

On 8/17/22 5:56 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> It looks like the path to sh is detected at build time and embedded in
> a bunch of scripts, which is bad as it breaks reproducibility, and also
> breaks when building on usr-merged systems, which is expressely against
> the Tech Committee resolution on this matter:
> 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/pacman-package-manager.html
> 
> 1     #!/bin/bash
> 1     #!/usr/bin/bash
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994388#110

Ah, thank you for this! Discovering the root of pacman's failure to
build reproducibly was on my to-do list, but I have been very busy for
the past week. Now that I know what to look for, this shouldn't be too
hard to fix.

Thanks,
--
Ben Westover

Attachment: OpenPGP_signature
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Reply via email to