[rb-general] Status of Reproducible Builds on NetBSD

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 01:48:43AM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> > do you think such a knob could be made and if so, how?
> 
> Yes, typically we set a value in a configuration file, like /etc/mk.conf (or
> $LOCALBASE/etc/mk.conf). It should be a variable called PKGSRC_MKREPRO, just
> like for NetBSD's base system, which would behave similarly and set
> something along the lines of:
> 
> > REPROFLAGS+=    -fdebug-prefix-map=\$$LOCALBASE=/usr/pkgsrc
> > REPROFLAGS+=    -fdebug-regex-map=\$$WRKOBJDIR=/usr/pkgsrc/work'
> 
> And then inject REPROFLAGS into both CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.

*nods*

> When I tried this, I couldn't find any difference between the resulting
> binaries involving debugging symbols, so I did not commit this change. Of
> course I would like to investigate it again.

rg

> Another variable may also have to be determined for setting
> $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, and a mechanism to guess a common value automatically
> otherwise.

so something like PKGSRC_SET_S_D_E and if thats set, then
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH will be set?

How (from where) would you set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the case of NetBSD
ports? In Debian, we use debian/changelog, what would you use?


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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