[Reproducible-builds] timestamps_in_directories

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Mon Oct 12 08:11:19 UTC 2015


On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 07:50:49PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2015, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > It's indeed an unfortunate interaction of dh_installdocs and disorderfs
> > when installing directory hierarchies.
> 
> we don't use disorderfs since weeks:

Ah, I'm pretty sure it was still on the list of variations on the
reproducible.d.n front page yesterday when I checked that. So I thought
the issues had been fixed. Never mind & thanks for fixing the list.

In that case, I think something else has introduced file ordering
variation between build1 and build2 lately, highlighting this issue
(and others in for instance perl and libapache2-mod-perl2). 
This is a good thing, of course.

I still think the directory timestamp issue happens because dh_installdocs
uses find + cp --parents -p, which generates different results depending
on the order of the find results.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



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