Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday February 19 and Saturday February 25 2017:
Reproducible work in other projects
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Christos Zaulas wrote a blog post entitled “NetBSD fully reproducible builds” which generated some discussion on Hacker News and was mentioned on DistroWatch.
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Christos also reported that that NetBSD’s base system is now 100.0% reproducible in our current test framework. Whilst we do less variations than in Debian here, this is highly commendable.
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Microsoft requires reproducible binaries for signing shim code for secure boot.
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Thanks to Ed Maste, FreeBSD base system reached 99.6% too, after he’d seen the news about NetBSD. This too has been achieved using non-default settings and is to be considered merely as a “hey we can do that too” (though Ed is slightly sad they missed 100%). The real plan is still to achieve 100% reproducibility with default settings.
Upcoming Events
Introduction to Reproducible Builds will be presented by Vagrant Cascadian at Scale15x in Pasadena, California, March 5th.
On March 23rd Holger Levsen will give a talk at the German Unix User Group’s “Frühjahrsfachgespräch” about Reproducible Builds everywhere.
Verifying Software Freedom with Reproducible Builds will be presented by Vagrant Cascadian at Libreplanet2017 in Boston, March 25th-26th.
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
Chris Lamb:
- #855674 filed against sugar-physics-activity.
- #855909 filed against publicsuffix.
Reviews of unreproducible packages
9 package reviews have been added, 3 have been updated and 1 has been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.
Weekly QA work
During our reproducibility testing, the following FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
- Chris Lamb (4)
diffoscope development
diffoscope is our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues.
- diffoscope 77 was unblocked by the release team for stretch.
- Mattia Rizzolo uploaded 77~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports.
buildinfo.debian.net development
buildinfo.debian.net is our experiment into how to
process, store and distribute .buildinfo files after the Debian archive
software has processed them.
- Chris Lamb:
Website development
tests.reproducible-builds.org
- Ed Maste made the upcoming FreeBSD release almost 100% reproducible (see above).
- Holger Levsen added the number of configured and running builder jobs to the performance stats page.
- Holger Levsen improved the scheduler, so that untested packages and versions are tried sooner.
- Holger added logging for submitting
.buildinfofiles to `buildinfo.debian.net and added notification about this failure. - Holger also made some minor improvements to the generated HTML.
Misc.
This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb, Ed Maste & Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
