On 2023-04-04, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > The files in the binutils tarball appear to be in arbitrary order, > possibly affected by locale or filesystem differences: > > > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/armhf/diffoscope-results/binutils.html > > /usr/src/binutils/binutils-2.40.tar.xz > > e.g. the first file in the bfd directory listed in these two builds are: > > > hrw-r--r--···0········0········0········0·2023-01-14·00:00:00.000000·binutils-2.40/bfd/elf32-m68hc1x.h > vs. > > hrw-r--r--···0········0········0········0·2023-01-14·00:00:00.000000·binutils-2.40/bfd/elf32-score7.c > > > The attached patch to debian/rules fixes this by passing the --sort=name > argument to tar.
Thanks for applying the fix for #1033959: binutils: reproducible builds: build paths embedded in debug symbols Any chance we could get this patch applied too? I think we are quite close to a place where binutils can at least build reproducibly with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck nopgo nolto" ... which is a good start! live well, vagrant > From 6dce3b6b223419c31fb1aaa59b658652b0fe953d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org> > Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 16:10:53 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] debian/rules: Pass argument to tar to sort the files in > the binutils source tarball. > > Locale or filesystem differences may result in the generated tarball > embedding files in arbitrary order. > > https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/ > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/random_order_in_tarball_issue.html > --- > debian/rules | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules > index 0a3ff6ec..a697df43 100755 > --- a/debian/rules > +++ b/debian/rules > @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ endif # ifndef BACKPORT > xargs -0r touch --no-dereference --date='$(BUILD_DATE)' && \ > find $(source_files) -type f -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z | \ > XZ_OPT=-9 tar --null -T - -c --xz --mode=go=rX,u+rw,a-s \ > - --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner \ > + --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner --sort=name \ > --xform='s=^[^/]*\/=binutils-$(VERSION)/=' \ > -f > $(pwd)/$(d_src)/$(PF)/src/binutils/binutils-$(VERSION).tar.xz \ > $(source_files) > -- > 2.39.2
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