Hi Erik, On Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2015, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > The build should be immune to the time of the build, of course. That's > fairly easy (e.g. use 'ar -D' consistently and leave DEBUG_FLAGS empty).
yup, easy, but this can mean some work. (Which usually can be shared among the upstream software projects.) > But what about the user who started the build? This leaks to at least > sendmail config files. yup, those are bugs which need to be fixed. (it's also a privacy issue.) > Being agnostic to the path to the src root (e.g. /usr/src or > /home/erik/freebsd/HEAD/src) requires rewriting the compiler __FILE__ > macro to insert a relative path, and make debuggers understand relative > paths. This is hard. while doing this for Debian we haven't found a way to prevent this (leaking of the build path into build products), so our "solution" now is to use a definited path or record the path and build in the same path again. that is clearly not optimal but currently the only thing we require to be some specific way. > The FreeBSD subversion revision is also leaked several places. That should not matter, as it's part of the source, so it will be the same revision on rebuilds. > I think reproduce builds are a noble goal and would enable all sorts of > smart analysis, e.g. which binaries are affected by a certain commit. Just > remember to define the requirements that need to be satisfied to get > reproduce builds. sure. *I* also don't plan to fix or even work on FreeBSD, I'm merely investigating it and sharing the results. If the FreeBSD community wants reproducible builds, you will need to work on them ;-) (I'll be happy to help but thats it.) cheers, Holger
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