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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #194

Published: Jan 16, 2019.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday January 6 and Saturday January 12 2019:

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Website development

There were a number of updates to the reproducible-builds.org project website this week, including:

Test framework development

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

  • Holger Levsen:
    • Arch Linux-specific changes:
      • Use Debian’s sed, untar and others with sudo as they are not available in the bootstrap.tar.gz file ([], [], [], [], etc.).
      • Fix incorrect sudoers(5) regex. []
      • Only move old schroot away if it exists. []
      • Add and drop debug code, cleanup cruft, exit on cleanup(), etc. ([], [])
      • cleanup() is only called on errors, thus exit 1. []
    • Debian-specific changes:
      • Revert “Support arbitrary package filters when generating deb822 output” ([]) and re-open the corresponding merge request
      • Show the total number of packages in a package set. []
    • Misc/generic changes:
      • Node maintenance. ([, [], [], etc.)
  • Mattia Rizzolo:
    • Fix the NODE_NAME value in case it’s not a full-qualified domain name. []
    • Node maintenance. ([], etc.)
  • Vagrant Cascadian:

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


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