Re: dracut --reproducible by default

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On 25.08.2015 15:51, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> ping?
> 
> Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are currently considering to feed Dracut with --reproducible in the
>> rpm-ostree[1] project when creating a new OStree[2] tree image.  In this
>> way there won't be need to store an additional file when the new initrd
>> file matches an older one.  Everything works very well (except the
>> additional step of providing a patched GNU cpio for now).
>>
>> Reproducible images seem to make a lot of sense, also for users that
>> don't know about the --reproducible option.  Is there any reason why
>> this is not done by default?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Giuseppe
>>
>> 1) https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree
>> 2) https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/

No significant reason, except the penalty of the extra step, which fixes all
the timestamps.
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