Hi Henrique,
> Because the early initramfs is going to be (re?)generated at package
> *install* / upgrade time. So, it is not only at package build time...
Yep that's fine; I am attempting to make a reproducible live system and
it will be exported during the live build system. :)
> Also, if the admin calls "update-initramfs", it will re-create the early
> initramfs, and SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not going to be appropriately set at
> that time.
Indeed, but then they have a running system so all bets are off.
> For the intel-microcode package, I changed iucode-tool (v2.1 and later)
> to set the dates to the latest microcode included in the image, which
> makes it always reproducible
(Curiously, whilst I see this code, for some reason my images. I'm sure
there is another cause of this however. Would followup in a different
bug if appropriate)
Regards,
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