Dear fellow R-B-ingsJust 2 weeks ago, when I re-reviewed the remaining ~120 major issues in openSUSE, I pretty much skipped over LibreOffice (and only this one), noting it down as "various issues", because some years ago, when I had previously taken a closer look, there had been so many issues in files of various formats and additionally the build of that large package took hours, so that I had quickly stopped debugging and left it "for later".
Then on the r-b-summit I met Thorsten from LibreOffice upstream and together we reviewed the old diff I had from 2022 [1]. We noticed that there was an issue with docs, but I had recently made
https://code.opensuse.org/package/doxygen/blob/master/f/reproducible.patch that turned out to solve this exact issue. It still needs upstreaming.There was a timestamp-issue from long-orphaned clucene and we found 3 others that Thorsten quickly fixed:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/topic:reprobuildNow there were only mtimes left in .jar and .zip files that were easily normalized with strip-nondeterminism.
So today I hold in my hands the first two bit-identical LibreOffice rpm packages.
And this is the success I wanted to share with you all today. It makes me feel as if we can solve anything. Ciao Bernhard M. [1] https://rb.zq1.de/compare.factory-20230109/diffs/libreoffice-compare.out
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