Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #192

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday December 23 and Saturday December 29 2018:

• A full and in-depth report about our recent summit is under preparation but in the meantime the Guix project published their own report on the event.

• Rolf Neugebauer proposed an update to LinuxKit (a toolkit for building custom minimal, immutable Linux distributions) to add initial support for reproducible builds.

• Bernhard posted the monthly openSUSE reproducible builds update to the opensuse-factory mailing list.

• Holger discussed reproducible builds for the F-Droid (a catalogue of free-software applications for the Android platform) with the upstream developers at the 35C3 conference in Leipzig, Germany and participated at the Arch Linux meetup there as well.

• 9 Debian package reviews were added, 3 were updated and 9 were removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. Two issue types were added by Chris Lamb: timestamps_embedded_in_manpages_by_scdoc & randomness_in_intercal_files.

• The Open Build Service (OBS), a system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic & consistent form. was found to publish new binaries under old names which was confusing some tools.

• On January 9th 2019, Chris Lamb will speak at Université de Rennes, France on reproducible builds.

• Holger Levsen bumped the Standards-Version field in all of our tools to 4.3.0. […][…][…][…]

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • python-sh (FTBFS-j1)
  • perl (ASLR)
  • gengetopt (support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in mdate-sh)
  • xen (fix a bug triggered by reproducible fix)
  • opa-ff (drop CPU-detection via -march=native also filed upstream)

In addition, Mattia Rizzolo filed a build failure bug.

reproducible-builds.org website development

Chris Lamb made a huge number of updates to our reproducible-builds.org project website this week:

• Set a temporary logo for Christmas. […][…]

• Move our homepage to the new visual style. […][…]

• Split, tidy and expand footer. […][…][…] and link the main heading element of blog posts “back” to themselves […].

• Move the tools, resources and events pages to new visual style. […][…][…][…]

• Update the support mechanisms for the weekly reports, such as dropping the migrate-blog-posts script […] as well as fixing some title handling […] […].

• Improve a number of styles, such as blockquotes, linked headings should not have “link” styling, unpublished blog post drafts, etc. […][…][…]

• Tidy and highlight the display of our sponsors. […][…]

• Add the ablity to override the entire <head> title […] and improve spacing etc. on mobile browsers […].

In addition, Arnout Engelen and Hervé Boutemy made an initial stab at documenting the JVM “buildinfo” format. […][…]

Test framework development

There were a number of updates to our Jenkins-based testing framework that powers tests.reproducible-builds.org this week, including:

• Holger Levsen updated the Coreboot support to point to the new Git repositories to new URI. […]

• Mattia Rizzolo updated the “wrong future” check for the 2019 (part of our many build variations). […][…] as well as a various bits of node maintenance. […][…][…]

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This week’s edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.