Hello! Thank you for responding so fast.
On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 18:00 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-08-30, Christopher Talbot wrote: > > Debian Salsa seems to fail reprotest due to different compile > > times. > ... > > One recent example is here: > > https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/vvmd/-/pipelines/283265 > > > > When looking at the debs with diffoscope, I get example output like > > below (it happens with several files, I only included one for > > brevity): > > > > -drwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 0 2021-08- > > 30 > > 22:22:16.000000 ./ > > │ │ │ -drwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 0 > > 2021- > > 08-30 22:22:15.000000 ./usr/ > > │ │ │ -drwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 0 > > 2021- > > 08-30 22:22:16.000000 ./usr/bin/ > > │ │ │ --rwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 119928 > > 2021- > > 08-30 22:22:16.000000 ./usr/bin/vvmd > ... > > 08-30 22:22:24.000000 ./usr/ > > │ │ │ +drwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 0 > > 2021- > > 08-30 22:22:25.000000 ./usr/bin/ > > │ │ │ +-rwxr-xr-x 0 root (0) root (0) 119928 > > 2021- > > 08-30 22:22:25.000000 ./usr/bin/vvmd > > > In osk-sdl, it seemed to be fixed by running it a day later. > > https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/osk-sdl/-/jobs/1821885 > > Hrm. That sounds suspicious... > > I'm unable to reproduce this locally with reprotest against a vvmd or > osk-sdl git checkout. Maybe this has something to do with how salsaci > is > setting up the directory... ? Maybe it unpacks the .orig.tar.* in > some > way that alters the timestamps? > > But that *should* be fixed by dpkg's SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH handling when > it > generates the .deb ... hrm. > > Maybe when the job was first run, SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was set to a date > later than the file unpack times (e.g. maybe due to timezone?)... and > thus wouldn't clamp the timestamps ... that might explain re-running > the > job later suceeding. > > > live well, > vagrant Unfortunately, I do not know enough about reprotest to know what causes it. On a hunch, I also decided to rerun reprotest, and it worked this time: https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/vvmd/-/pipelines/283265 So it seems to be some sort of time/date dependent bug? Respectfully, Chris Talbot _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
