Following up from the conference last week - yes we're using srebuild from debian-rebuilder-setup.
Thanks, Matt Bearup Software Developer – CEH, CISSP, GCUX Microsoft Azure Compute Linux -----Original Message----- From: Santiago Torres Arias <santi...@nyu.edu> Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 11:49 AM To: Matt Bearup <mbea...@microsoft.com> Cc: Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org>; kpcyrd <g...@rxv.cc>; Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org>; 774...@bugs.debian.org; Reproducible Builds discussion list <reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Xavier <y...@debian.org> Subject: Re: #774415: devscripts: please add the srebuild wrapper for reproducible builds Curious, was the srebuild the one as featured in the debian-rebuilder-setup[1] repository or the upstream one? I don't think we've faced much build issues on our side... Cheers! -Santiago [1] https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/debian-rebuilder-setup On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 06:03:08PM +0000, Matt Bearup wrote: > I have to second the issues with srebuild. We invested a lot of time to > utilize this tool in our rebuilds but faced consistent build failures. > The best explanation I could find was that the snapshots referred to in the > .buildinfo files had expired. That's not conclusive (the output wasn't clear > on the cause of failure) nor is expired repo metadata the fault of srebuild > per se. But the issue was nonetheless a blocker. > PBuilder is the most consistent build tool we've seen thus far, will have to > investigate debrebuild as well. > > Matt Bearup > Software Developer – CEH, CISSP, GCUX > Microsoft Azure Compute Linux