Help with a local configuration

[Elías Alejandro]

Hi Vagrant,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 8:41 PM Vagrant Cascadian
<vagrant at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
> It would be helpful to say what command you actually ran. :)
>
It's the same wiki command and then you appoint out later. :)

> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956591
> > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Howto#Testing_procedure
>
> I'll speculate that you were using (since that it is in the instructions
> you were following):
>
>   $ sudo reprotest --vary=-build_path,domain_host.use_sudo=1 --auto-build XXX.dsc -- schroot unstable-amd64-sbuild
>
Yes, it's.

> Since the issue in bug #956591 is build_path related, you shouldn't
> disable the build path variation (e.g. --vary=-build_path).
>
I see.

> From the gpick source directory and with the build-depends installed, a
> simple test (without chroots, and disabling some variations that require
> more complicated setup):
>
>   reprotest --auto-build --store-dir=$(mktemp -d) --min-cpus=10 --vary=-user_group,-domain_host,-fileordering auto -- null
>
> It told me that there were issues when varying the build_path,
> consistent with the reported bug.
>
>
> So a minimal command that should reproduce the issue:
>
>   reprotest --vary=-all,+build_path auto -- null
>
Thanks. Now I have a better idea about how to deal with this issue.
>
> If you look at:
>
>   https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/gpick.html
>
> You'll notice that it generally only has reproducibility issues in
> "unstable". We don't vary the build path in the testing/bullseye or
> stable/buster tests, so that makes sense.
>
I see.

>
> Hope that helps get you to a useful place to debug the issue further!
>
Yes, Of course. Thanks a lot Vagrant!

>
> live well,
>   vagrant

Best regards,
Elías