On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 3:59 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 10:41:43PM +0100, Aoife Moloney wrote: > > [https://github.com/keszybz/add-determinism add-determinism] is a Rust > > program which, as its name suggests, adds determinism to files that > > are given as input by attempting to standardize metadata contained in > > binary or source files to ensure consistency and clamping to > > $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in all instances. `add-determinism` is the "Fedora > > version" of [https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/strip-nondeterminism > > strip-nondeterminism] from the Debian project. Since > > strip-nondeterminism is written in perl, it is undesirable for use in > > Fedora, as we don't want to pull perl in the buildroot for every > > package. > > https://github.com/keszybz/add-determinism looks like a package with a > lot of Rust dependencies just to make some small changes to four > different file types. Isn't there an easier way to do this? I would > have thought a Python library would be more suitable as the most > complicated bit is the *.pyc change which is done using Python code. > Considering Debian's version is in Perl, yes, it's quite reasonable to consider that. It could have been written in Python, C++, or even shell (if you truly hated yourself). I'm not a big fan of Rust for this either. But unless someone offers to make another version that is more appealing, this is what we have. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
