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

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2019-05-18, Chris Lamb wrote:
>> 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.
>     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...

Colin Watson removed it back in 2011:

  https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/commit/fa965c32ca8bfa2ff14886c6f0dca131532815c7

commit fa965c32ca8bfa2ff14886c6f0dca131532815c7
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 14 18:08:25 2011 +0000

    Skip the option field in sources.list lines, if present.                                                   

diff --git a/build/util/gen-sources.list.udeb b/build/util/gen-sources.list.udeb                               
index e86b4fa66..9f140100e 100755
--- a/build/util/gen-sources.list.udeb
+++ b/build/util/gen-sources.list.udeb
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ get_mirrors() {
                [ -s $file ] || continue
                grep '^deb[[:space:]]' $file | \
                   grep -v '^deb[[:space:]]\+cdrom:' | \                                                       
+                  sed 's,^deb \[[^]]*\] ,deb ,' | \
                   grep -v '\(security.debian.org\|volatile.debian.\(net\|org\)\)' | \                         
                   grep '[[:space:]]main' | \
                   awk '{print $1 " " $2}' | \


Happen to remember what it breaks to have these present? If it was a
workaround, perhaps it is no longer needed?


live well,
  vagrant
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