Hello lists,here is the seventh update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1].
Reproducible status: * All major desktops build reproducibly with bullseye, bookworm and sid ... ** ... except for Cinnamon on bookworm and sid New and changed: * live-build now reports a git hash number when a git version is used [2][3]** Together with the timestamp of the (snapshot) repository, this generates a unique identifier for reproducing the ISO image
* First steps with openQA to walk through every single boot menu entry [4]** This will test the functionality of the reproducible ISO images, and helps to find issues early
*** e.g. kernel module mismatch in the Debian Installer** This procedure will be easily extended to other images, e.g. the netinst image
* Pending: Jenkins reports the sha256sum of the reproducible image [5]** You will be able to verify whether a local build is identical to the build by Jenkins * Question on the mailing list: Should the live images be generated again? [6]
Patch available but not released yet:* libxmlb used a pointer address (%p) for a hash value. Upstream [7] has been fixed
* texlive-base: Reported differences in the generated ls-R [8] Future plans/ideas:* texlive-base: More sources for non-reproducibility are noted in the Wiki page [1]
** Only the Cinnamon desktop is affected, starting with bookworm * Recording the configuration used by live-build ** Next step: test some scenarios and write a proposal* Reprotest might be used instead of just 2 builds without a short time frame, to capture more variations
* Use disorderfs* Long term: When live-build images are working fine, the work could be extended to other images, e.g. the netinst images or perhaps even Docker images * Transfer the special features of the (now disabled) live-wrapper live images to live-build
With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages [2] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/273 [3] Pending merge for Jenkins: 45721776e008469b28ca4310b0cb6413466397c4[4] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/2
[5] Pending merge for Jenkins: 071a80ff4f28e019e1067be72058106478ed4624 [6] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2022/02/msg00000.html [7] https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb/issues/110 [8] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003449
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