On 2015-04-23 23:30, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Source: glibc > Version: 2.19-18 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: timestamps fileordering umask username uname > > Hi! > > While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed > that glibc could not be built reproducibly. > > The attached patch addresses several issues: > > 1. The source tarball will now stay identical despite variations of > the time of the build, user, group, umask and file ordering. > 2. version-info.h currently captures the build time and the current > kernel version. In the context of Debian this is not really useful > and a new patch simply removes it. The behavior is now the same > if built under Linux or not. > 3. nscd uses the date and time of the build as a version marker. So a > patch is added to allow the build date to be set externally. The date > of the latest debian/changelog entry will be used instead of the > current time for Debian. > > Once applied, glibc can be built reproducibly in our current > experimental framework.
I have just applied the part concerning point 1. For the 2 other points, from what I have understood there are now patches for gcc to define __DATE__ and __TIME__. So the question is should we still want to get this changes in the glibc? In that case I would try to get these patches upstream. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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