[Reproducible-builds] Reproducible debootstrap

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Got a bit curious and wondered just what it would take to make the output of debootstrap reproducible. Just two simple invokations and I "only" get the following differences:
> 
>  * {m,a}times varying over the entire tree
> 
>  * /etc/machine-id (systemd!)
> 
>  * /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache (probably trivially deletable?)
> 
>  * /var/log/{alternatives,bootstrap,dpkg}.log (hmm..)

Also see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls

There is also a todo entry to add this test on jenkins, if somebody wants to
pick it up :)

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