Hi everyone,During this year's Reproducible Builds summit [1], we explored the idea of a central place for distributions to share reproducible builds patches.
During said discussion, Bernhard M. Wiedemann (from SUSE / OpenSUSE) [2] remembered that he already created a repository [3] for that purpose about 10 years ago, which we decided to bring back to life!
The repository structure is pretty simple, we have one directory per package containing patches as well as eventual documentation, in the form of a README, if relevant (e.g. to document upstreaming efforts or any meaningful information).
Bernhard added most Reproducible Builds related patches from OpenSUSE to the repo.
I did the same with some Arch Linux patches (but some might be missing).As said at the beginning of this mail, we hope that this repository could serve as a central place for people from various project to share, document and fetch patches (rather than storing and maintaining them on our own respective side). This would facilitate progress regarding our common goal of getting reproducible builds for our respective packages.
If anyone else from the Arch team wants to get push access to this repository, please contact and give me your GitHub username. I'll collect all requests and relay them to Bernhard so he can send invites.
Additionally, if you have downstream reproducible builds related patches applied to your packages that are not present in this repo yet, please consider pushing them to it (and eventually fetching them from it afterwards in your PKGBUILDs) or feel free to ping me so I can push them for you (in case you don't have push access yet).
[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/events/gothenburg2026/ [2] https://github.com/bmwiedemann [3] https://github.com/distropatches/reproducible-builds -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
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