Hi,

As discussed few weeks ago, I'm working on reproducible builds for Fedora. I've 
submitted a request for review for new packages: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924918. Notably, reprotest is a 
striking tool to test reproduciblity by changing multiples build factors (time, 
user, lang, etc.) and highlight differences (if exists) with diffoscope (see 
https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest).

On the same topic, I'm developing rpmreproduce (see 
https://github.com/fepitre/rpmreproduce) which is very much work in progress. This tool 
allows to rebuild a RPM with the same environment, packages versions etc. This is in the 
continuity of a previous attempt https://github.com/kholia/ReproducibleBuilds. Currently, 
it uses a "buildinfo" file as input (see 
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/BuildinfoFiles) but there is not such file in 
Fedora (yet?). In Qubes OS, we use an original implementation for RPM done at the 
occasion of Reproducible Builds summit: 
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder-rpm/blob/master/scripts/rpmbuildinfo or 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fepitre/rpmreproduce/master/scripts/rpmbuildinfo 
(latest dev/test version). This tool is in charge to download exact version dependencies 
as specified in the buildinfo, create a local repository, download the corresponding 
source RPM and then, rebuild it with mock and only this locally created repository that 
reflects the original build environment.

I take this opportunity to invite RPM devs to discuss about a possible upstream 
implementation of buildinfo file format. For example, we could think about 
having a buildinfo file automatically generated by rpmbuild as dpkg is doing 
similarly in Debian. I would be happy to do the work for that.

Best regards,
Frédéric

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