Hi Vagrant, On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 10:06, James Addison <j...@jp-hosting.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 03:40 Vagrant Cascadian > <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org> wrote: >> >> On 2024-10-19, James Addison wrote: >> > [ ... snip ... ] >> > I don't find any clearly locale-related differences when comparing the >> > current output of the comparative builds[1] of grub2 in the >> > Reproducible Builds test infrastructure for Debian. >> >> The locales tested in the test infrastructure do not trigger the issue. > > > Ok, that likely explains it. I'll run the reprotest variations you suggested > (ideally both without, and then with, the patch applied) soon to confirm that.
I've spent some time attempting rebuilds, but am having difficulty replicating this bug. I do find some nondeterministic results, but they don't appear to be related to locales (one is a chmod/file permission error -- one is a timestamp, and there may be another in there that I'm yet to determine). I have been using "--vary=-all,+locales,locales.locale=..." with the suggested locale codes, and I've installed the Debian "locales" and "locales-all" packages in addition to the base build-deps for grub2 itself. Are there any additional steps required for the build nondeterminism to appear? As a follow-up task I may attempt rebuilds from older snapshots around the time of the bugreport -- but perhaps there's something I'm missing. Thanks again, James
