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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #188

Published: Dec 5, 2018.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday November 25 and Saturday December 1 2018:

Patches filed

Test framework development

There were a number of updates to our Jenkins-based testing framework that powers tests.reproducible-builds.org this week, including:

  • Chris Lamb prepared a merge request to generate and serve diffoscope JSON output in addition to the existing HTML and text formats (example output). This required Holger Levsen to increase the partition holding /var/lib/jenkins/userContent/reproducible from 255G to 400G. Thanks to Profitbricks for sponsoring this virtual hardware for more than 6 years now.

  • Holger Levsen and Jelle van der Waa started to add integrate new Arch Linux build nodes, namely repro1.pkgbuild.com and repro2.pkgbuild.com,

  • In addition, Holger Levsen installed the needrestart package everywhere [] updated an interface to always use short hostname [], explained what some nodes were doing [] as well as performed the usual node maintenance ([], [], [], etc.).

  • Jelle van der Waa also fixed a number of issues in the Arch Linux integration including showing the language in the first build [] and setting LANG/LC_ALL in the first build [].


This week’s edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen, Jelle van der Waa & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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