Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #102

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday April 2 and Saturday April 8 2017:

Media coverage

• Daniel Peebles reported that tar still has problem with deterministic output and long filenames.

• Dustin Kirkland wrote a blog post referencing reproducible builds as a followup to a recent thread on Hacker News.

Toolchain development and fixes

• Ximin Luo uploaded custom version of GCC6 to our repository to test BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP patches.

Reviews of unreproducible packages

27 package reviews have been added, 14 have been updated and 17 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

Weekly QA work

During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:

• Aaron M. Ucko (1)
• Adrian Bunk (1)
• Chris Lamb (2)

tests.reproducible-builds.org

• Chris Lamb added support for a .bz2 version of reproducible.json, available at https://reproducible.debian.net/reproducible.json.bz2

• FreeGeek donated a network switch to make room for some additional boards on the armhf build network.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb, Vagrant Cascadian & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.