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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #72

Published: Sep 12, 2016.


What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday September 4 and Saturday September 10 2016:

Reproducible work in other projects

Python 3.6’s dictonary type now retains the insertion order. Thanks to themill for the report.

In coreboot, Alexander Couzens committed a change to make their release archives reproducible.

Patches submitted

Reviews of unreproducible packages

We’ve been adding to our knowledge about identified issues. 3 issue types have been added:

1 issue type has been updated:

16 have been have updated:

13 have been removed, not including removed packages:

100s of packages have been tagged with the more generic captures_build_path, and many with captures_kernel_version, user_hostname_manually_added_requiring_further_investigation, user_hostname_manually_added_requiring_further_investigation, captures_shell_variable_in_autofoo_script, etc.

Particular thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein for his work here.

Weekly QA work

FTBFS bugs have been reported by:

  • Aaron M. Ucko (1)
  • Chris Lamb (7)

diffoscope development

strip-nondeterminism development

tests.reproducible-builds.org:

  • F-Droid:
    • Hans-Christoph Steiner found after extensive debugging that for kvm-on-kvm, vagrant from stretch is needed (or a backport, but that seems harder than setting up a new VM).
  • FreeBSD:
    • Holger updated the VM for testing FreeBSD to FreeBSD 10.3.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.


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