On 2/19/19 10:19 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 14:10:34 +0100, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: >> remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i can tell. > > The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of remakepkg were unclear to > me, so I chose to simply ignore it. Reproducible builds were not taken > into account, so it's indeed very likely that it breaks that. > > In the end, remakepkg is a hack. But the underlying concept itself is > already a hack, so I'm not feeling too bad, to be honest :-) > > (that being said, I'm obviously open for discussing suggestions) I see no problem and nothing to fix here. reproducible rebuilding a .pkg.tar.xz created by remakepkg, which has as its whole purpose, surgery upon a package, seems fundamentally unreproducible to me, moreover why would you want to reproduce it -- a reproducible rebuild of remakepkg packages should have as its only input, the original .pkg.tar.xz -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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