[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Reproducible binaries

[Martin Jansa]

What about passing the seed value (currently created based on last commit
in repo you're building from - which doesn't need to be oe-core repository
right?) to make it easier for people to pass whatever value works for them?
even some constant value in DISTRO config.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Bystricky, Juro <juro.bystricky at intel.com>
wrote:

>
> > But not for 2 different builds with slightly modified metadata (e.g.
> > just because top commit is different in whatever build repository you're
> > running from even when it doesn't have any effect in your image), right?
> >
>
> This may be addressed in the future. Presently, the goal is to ensure that
> if we
> use identical repositories we get identical results. This should not depend
> on the time/date, build folder or even Linux distro. By identical results
> I mean binary identical comparison of the resulting "deploy" folders.
> (images, packages, licenses). So for example, there should be no binary
> differences
> between the two images of core-image-minimal.rootfs.ext4.
> In your case (slightly different repos), the difference would be presented
> as different time stamps for /etc/version and /etc/timestamp only.
>
>
> > So it doesn't fix the files-in-image.txt differences as described in:
> > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5866
> >
>
> Eventually it will. There is still ways to go and this patch set is just
> the first
> kick at the can.
>
>
>
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