I'll get on this issue as soon as possible. It may be next week, but I'll work on it by then.
On March 16, 2022 4:05:10 PM EDT, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmel...@outlook.com> wrote: >Hi, Jody and Eriberto. > >Recently I've received a patch [1] to make paper reproducible, the >email >contained relevant information about the problem of reproducibility in >regards to filesystem operations and concerns. Therefore, I'm >forwarding >2 emails to you in hope it can be of assistance. > >Regards, >Charles > >[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005955 > >----- Forwarded message from Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> ----- > >Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:47:08 -0800 >From: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> >To: sub...@bugs.debian.org >Subject: Bug#1005955: paper-icon-theme: please make the build >reproducible >X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface >User-Agent: >Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-4778-g14fba9972e-fm-20220217.001-g14fba997 > >Source: paper-icon-theme >Version: 1.5.0+git20200312.aa3e8af-3 >Severity: wishlist >Tags: patch >User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org >Usertags: filesystem >X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org > >Hi, > >Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that >paper-icon-theme could not be built reproducibly. > >This is caused by jdupes iterating over its arguments using the >filesystem ordering, instead of using their filenames. A patch is >attached that sorts the input prior to passing it to jdupes (using >find, sort and xargs), but it may be more sensible that jdupes does >this itself. Indeed, the jdupes manpage implies that it should do >this, but I leave this up to your (almost certainly more informed) >judgement. > > [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ > > >Regards, > >-- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk > `- > >--- a/debian/rules 2022-02-17 17:21:20.786897478 -0800 >--- b/debian/rules 2022-02-17 17:40:21.992308727 -0800 >@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ > override_dh_auto_install: > dh_auto_install > # Remove duplicate files using softlinks >- jdupes -lr debian/paper-icon-theme/usr/share/icons >+ find -type f -print0 debian/paper-icon-theme/usr/share/icons | sort >-z | xargs -0r jdupes -Ol > > >----- End forwarded message ----- > >----- Forwarded message from Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> ----- > >Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:49:02 -0000 >From: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> >To: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmel...@outlook.com> >Cc: 1005955-qu...@bugs.debian.org >User-Agent: >Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-4778-g14fba9972e-fm-20220217.001-g14fba997 >Subject: Re: paper-icon-theme: please make the build reproducible > >Hi Carlos, > >> Actually, I wasn't able to reproduce this issue on my machine. I >tested >> back when the issue appeared and now that you submitted the patch and >> the builds on my machine are identical. > >Ah, perhaps I could have helped here: given this is a filesystem >ordering issue, it's unsurprising that you could not easily reproduce >it locally. > >Unless you use disorderfs or similar, most file systems will happen to >return directory entries in the same order if asked multiple times in >a row — the underlying problem is that this is not defined and/or >deterministic. > > >Best wishes, > >-- > ,''`. > : :' : Chris Lamb > `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk > > >----- End forwarded message ----- -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
