Has anybody tried to make cygport builds reproducible? It bothers me that each time I build the same package in the same build environment I get a different package archive (even if the same size it will have another checksum) and lots of files inside the archive are different, too.
It seems that the Debian folks have been trying to get that problem solved on a larger scale (they also record the build environment so it could be re-created as needed). https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds https://lwn.net/Articles/630074/ But for starters I'd be happy if two consecutive builds produced the same archive. Besides getting stable SHA-512 it would enable us to package the noarch parts independently (i.e. files that are identical between an i686 and an x86_64 build). Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds
