From: "Jérôme Pouiller" <jezz@sysmic.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:56:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3980199.Q5mcqT0LFo@sagittea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161118222823.155c12a2@free-electrons.com>
On Friday 18 November 2016 22:28:23 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:44:50 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller wrote:
>
> > > Yes, I know, but it's a pain to force everyone using an old distro to
> > > build host-tar. Maybe we should make this conditional on
> > > BR2_REPRODUCIBLE?
> >
> > Last Ubuntu LTS is 16.04 and Debian 9 will be stable in a few months
> > (maybe simultaneous with next Buildroot version).
> >
> > So, IMHO it not justified to add a dirty condition in check-host-tar.sh.
>
> I think you don't really realize how big companies work. They will be
> using such version in 3 or 5 years maybe.
>
> We have people still using RHEL5, even though it's almost 10 years old,
> and its support going to stop next year. Supporting old distributions
> is important for Buildroot, so you can't just sweep away the problem by
> pretending that it doesn't exist with modern distributions.
This patch did not break support for old distributions, but OK.
--
J?r?me Pouiller, Sysmic
Embedded Linux specialist
http://www.sysmic.fr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-19 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-18 9:10 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 00/15] Reproducible builds Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 01/15] reproducibility: generate SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-18 13:48 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 8:51 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 9:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 10:01 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 8:40 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 02/15] reproducible: fix DATE/TIME macros in toolchain-wrapper Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-18 13:46 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 03/15] reproducible: add '-n' to gzip invocations Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 9:02 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 13:49 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-18 13:02 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 13:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-18 13:44 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 21:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 8:33 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 13:56 ` Jérôme Pouiller [this message]
2016-11-19 9:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 13:59 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 05/15] reproducibility/linux: override build timestamp Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 13:53 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 16:10 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 06/15] reproducibility/linux: inhibit build-id Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 9:31 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 14:04 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 07/15] reproducibility/busybox: disable build timestamps Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 9:32 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 9:33 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 08/15] reproducible: lock modification times in $TARGET_DIR Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:43 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 9:39 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 09/15] fakedate: new package Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-19 13:24 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 10:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 13:06 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 13:26 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 13:38 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-22 10:59 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 10/15] reproducible: enable fakedate Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 11:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-18 13:53 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 10:22 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 11/15] python2: generate reproducible .pyc Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 10:41 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 12:35 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 12/15] python3: " Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 13/15] python2: remove full path from .pyc Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 12:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 14/15] python3: " Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 12:39 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 9:10 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 15/15] reproducible: improve help text Jérôme Pouiller
2016-11-19 12:45 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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