From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 21:37:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] autobuild-run: use different output directories for reproducible builds testing In-Reply-To: <20190806181251.21885-1-itsatharva@gmail.com> References: <20190806181251.21885-1-itsatharva@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20190806213724.33e3f302@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 23:42:46 +0530 Atharva Lele wrote: > Having different output directories increases variation in the build. > > This commit also changes the directory name of the single output directory to > "output-1", as having varied length names for output directories introduces a > lot of reproducibility issues. > > Official Debian efforts also currently use same length names for different > directories: "/build/1st/$pkg-$ver" and "/build/$pkg-$ver/2nd" > Cfr: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_variations.html Is this an intermediate step, with the long term goal of supporting output directories of different length, or is this a limitation that we will have "forever" ? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com