Grep not actually reproducible on Arch but do we have a bigger issue?

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Wed May 6 08:12:25 UTC 2026


On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 11:56:17PM +0200, cen wrote:
> Perhaps rebuilderd needs a feature where GOOD packages are also periodically
> rebuilt in exponential back-off style and compared against current upstream
> build and also our last GOOD build. This would confirm whether a package is
> reproducible if built in a short time window but also help uncover longer
> time window issues that are currently hidden.
 
I think so too. There's several software which fails to build in the future,
mostly due to assumptions in tests breaking but also key material expiring and so on.


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