Irregular status update about reproducible live-build ISO images

[Roland Clobus]

Hello lists,




Single line summary: 97.7% reproducible live images

Reproducible status:

** ... except for KDE

Functionality status:


My activities in January:

* Only the KDE image for 12.4.0 has a different sha256sum
* Updates to openQA tests

* A local script will feed the official weekly live images to openQA


Work to be done:
* Adjust the content of the live-build image

* Many other things. See the TODO page [4]

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/337
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/334
[4] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/TODO

97.7%: based on 4 versions x 9 variants + 8 variants

here is the 22th update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1]. * All major desktops build reproducibly with bullseye, bookworm, trixie and sid ... ** ... provided they are built for a second time within the same DAK run (i.e. 6 hours) * All major desktops built reproducibly for the official Debian live images for bookworm (12.4.0) at any later moment ... * The sid images are affected by #1051607 (Calamares installation on UEFI Secure Boot systems fails to boot after installation) * The sid images occasionally report missing installation media, when booting from USB in UEFI non-secure boot systems (#1054325) * The testing images have an issue in the installer, it attempts to use a static IP-address instead of using DHCP. MR is prepared [2] * Rebuilding all images for 12.4.0. Thanks to apt-cacher-ng, I saved 75GB downloaded files * Fixes for udeb handling [2], preparing clipboard support when running under a VM [3] * Updated the documentation how the official Debian live images are built [1] ** Fix the remaining reproducible issue in time before 12.5.0 (planned for February 2024)

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