[Git][qa/jenkins.debian.net] reproducible: vary BUILDDIR for 2nd build so that the path length also

[Mattia Rizzolo]

I think the reason we were not varying the length of the build path was
because it can generate huge diffs, as it may translate in offsets all over
the binaries.

I can't imagine any other surprise other than that.

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, 12:22 am Vagrant Cascadian, <
vagrant at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:

> On 2019-08-08, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > I've deployed the following change now. If this causes significantly
> > more breakage than before we should probably/maybe revert it again...
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 03:13:56PM +0000, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> Vagrant Cascadian pushed to branch master at Debian QA /
> jenkins.debian.net
> >>
> >> Commits:
> >> 94469490 by Vagrant Cascadian at 2019-08-04T15:13:41Z
> >> reproducible: vary BUILDDIR for 2nd build so that the path length also
> >> varies.
>
> Thanks for giving it a try!
>
> I'm kind of of the opinion *if* we vary build-path at all, we may as
> well vary the length; the most obvious use-case for build-path
> variations is builds in /home/USER and requiring all usernames to be the
> same length is a bit unusual. :)
>
> But if things explode in surprising ways it can obviously can
> revisited. :)
>
> live well,
>   vagrant
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