Bug#926242: jenkins.debian.org: Please test reproducibility status of Debian Installer images

[Chris Lamb]

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Hi Mattia,

> Now, regarding building d-i as a normal package, I hit a bit of a
> readblock because it fails while trying to download the files in the
> nodes running in the future.

Sounds about right:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/debian-installer.html

    get-packages udeb  
    make[10]: 'sources.list.udeb' is up to date.
    Ign:1 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ InRelease
    Ign:2 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ Release
    Ign:3 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ Packages
    Ign:3 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ Packages
    Ign:3 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ Packages
    Get:3 copy:/build/debian-installer-20190410/2nd/build localudebs/ Packages [20 B]
    Get:4 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [163 kB]
    Reading package lists...
    E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease is expired (invalid since 391d 12h 5min 44s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

> What d-i does it copying the url from the host's (or, well, the
> chroot's) /etc/apt/sources.list, but it seems it doesn't also pick up an
> eventual [check-valid-until=no] placed on the same line :\

Nod. Any further thoughts on this? It would be great to see where we
are at here...


Best wishes,

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