linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages

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Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 23:58:57 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Guillem Jover <guillem@...rons.org>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 7:48 AM Guillem Jover <guillem@...rons.org> wrote:
>
> We should not be encoding the timestamp, otherwise we end up generating
> unreproducible files that cascade into unreproducible packages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@...rons.org>


Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.

> ---
>  scripts/package/builddeb | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> index 6df3c9f8b2da..b14abbe5afbb 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ create_package() {
>         mkdir -p "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname"
>         cp debian/copyright "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/"
>         cp debian/changelog "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
> -       gzip -9 "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
> +       gzip -n -9 "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
>         sh -c "cd '$pdir'; find . -type f ! -path './DEBIAN/*' -printf '%P\0' \
>                 | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums"
>
> --
> 2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada