Hi Keith,
> I think it would be useful for me to understand when and where the cache
> files end up being part of a build product
The idea is that two entirely separate builds of an essentially-
vanilla Debian-based ISO end up being bit-for-bit identical.
Currently that is not occurring as, for example:
/var/cache/fontconfig/04aabc0a78ac019cf9454389977116d2-le64.cache-7
.. in a "first" build has different contents to the one in a
second varying based on the mtime of the source directories (which
were naturally created at different times).
> I can imagine a special flag to fc-cache that would mark the cache
> files for this use. I feel that this would solve the problem in a
> better way.
As outlined above, the problem is more that the cache files
themselves are varying on each creation. It is also unclear how
this special flag would be activated via, essentially, a call to
"apt install fontpkg". :)
Regards,
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