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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #198

Published: Feb 12, 2019.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday February 3rd and Saturday February 9th 2019:

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Test framework development

We operate a comprehensive Jenkins-based testing framework that powers tests.reproducible-builds.org. This week, Holger Levsen made a large number of improvements including:

  • Arch Linux-specific changes:
    • Correct information about the hostnames used. []
    • Document that the kernel is not currently varied on rebuilds. []
    • Improve IRC messages. [][]
  • Debian-specific changes:
    • Perform a large number of cleanups, updating documentation to match. [][][][]
    • Avoid unnecessary apt install calls on every deployment run. []
  • LEDE/OpenWrt-specific changes:
    • Attempt to build all the packages again. []
    • Mark a workaround for an iw issue in a better way. []
  • Misc/generic changes:
    • Clarify where NetBSD is actually built. []
    • Improve jobs to check the version of diffoscope relative to upstream in various distributions. [][]
    • Render the artificial date correctly in the build variation tables. []
    • Work around a rare and temporary problem when restarting Munin. []
    • Drop code relating to OpenSSH client ports as this is handled via ~/ssh/config now. []
    • Fix various bits of documentation. [][][][][]
  • Fedora-specific changes:
    • Correctly note that testing Fedora is currently disabled. []
    • Abstract some behaviour to make possible testing of other distributions easier. []
    • Only update mock on build nodes. []

In addition, Mattia Rizzolo updated the configuration for df_inode [] and reverted a change to our pbuilder setup [] whilst Bernhard M. Wiedemann ported make_graph to using Python 3 [].


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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