Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le jeu. 05 déc. 2024 11:56:51 +0100, a ecrit: > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-12-05 09:00:35) > > > So now I can create bootable ext2 hurd-i386 disk images on my arm64 Linux > > > box. > > > > That's cool :) I'll have to see if I can then automate the building of > > the image that I put on cdimages. > > you are creating that image manually right now? How do you do it?
Yes, see http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.txt > > > > > mmdebstrap --variant=apt \ > > > > > > --include=passwd,debian-ports-archive-keyring,mmdebstrap,sysvinit-core,sysv-rc,e2fsprogs,libarchive13 > > > \ > > > > It's odd that you need to ask for libarchive13 explicitly? > > Yes. The libarchive support of e2fsprogs is via dlopen(), Ah, ok. > > sysvinit because it's not linux) > > But mmdebstrap cannot know that you want an init system in the first place > > > > > > --include=sysvinit-core,sysv-rc,debian-ports-archive-keyring,gnumach-image-1-486 > > > > Here, also, the kernel should be autodetected? > > But mmdebstrap cannot know that the chroot you want to create is supposed to > be > bootable. Perhaps mmdebstrap could be given options to tell so and behave accordingly? > A benefit of genext2fs is, that it produced bit-by-bit reproducible output > automatically. mke2fs doesn't? > > > The only wrinkle is, that the result is not yet bit-by-bit reproducible > > > when > > > having SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and a uuid and hash_seed set... I'll investigate > > > that. > > Thanks. > > Found it. It's here: > > https://sources.debian.org/src/hurd/1%3A0.9.git20240714-4/debian/local/setup-translators/#L151 > > [ -r /var/lib/random-seed ] || date > /var/lib/random-seed 2> /dev/null > > It writes the current time into /var/lib/random-seed which of course makes the > output unreproducible. I filed #1089092 with a patch. If you prefer, there's > also this MR: https://salsa.debian.org/hurd-team/hurd/-/merge_requests/3 Thanks! > > > I also plan to add this to the dpkg-root-demo salsa CI pipeline to make > > > sure that this setup keeps working going forward. > > Yes, that'll be a useful CI. > > I'll do that after the thing is bit-by-bit reproducible. :) OK :) Samuel
