Hi josch, On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 11:34:23AM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > the sha256sums are the sums computed from the output of mmdebstrap on stdout > (notice the pipe character in front of the sha256sum command).
ah, thanks. Seems i got tricked into the thinking mmdebstrap would output it results on stdout... > Debootstrap is > unable to produce a tarball by itself (which is sad because its easier to > check > whether two tarballs are the same than checking whether two directories are > the > same) so instead I put the debootstrap results into two directories and then > diff them recursively. right. > > b.) you boostrapped --variant=minbase here, while your original mail was > > about --variant=essential. I take it that --variant=essential is > > also unreproducible for buster? > > No, --variant=essential is also *reproducible* on buster. oh, very nice! > But I didn't use it > this time because we are comparing with debootstrap and debootstrap doesn't > know how to create a chroot with only Essential:yes packages in it, so the > comparison would be unfair. With --variant=minbase give to both commands, we > install the same package set and thus make the results a more fair comparison. ah, thanks. > > c.) now I wonder if mmdebstrap from *stable* can also bootstrap a > > reproducible unstable ? > Yes it can. You already wondered that in your earlier email so I included the > test in my commands above. ah, thanks. & very cool! > > & sorry for asking these questions instead of trying it myself... > No problem. :) :) I've now updated the draft for the 201910 report to read: Johannes 'josch' Schauer explained that [mmdebstrap](https://tracker.debian.org/mmdebstrap) can [create bit by bid identical Debian chroots of unstable and buster](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/10/msg00101.html), for both the --variant=essential and --variant=min base variants. -- cheers, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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