From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: dracut --reproducible by default Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:16:21 +0200 Message-ID: <55E6CC75.5080206@redhat.com> References: <87a8tnvhs0.fsf@foo.bar.baz> <87vbc3fpd5.fsf@foo.bar.baz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87vbc3fpd5.fsf-QWOdrvsUieXjVZl2hYKjvQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Giuseppe Scrivano , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 25.08.2015 15:51, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > ping? > > Giuseppe Scrivano writes: > >> Hi, >> >> We are currently considering to feed Dracut with --reproducible in the >> rpm-ostree[1] project when creating a new OStree[2] tree image. In this >> way there won't be need to store an additional file when the new initrd >> file matches an older one. Everything works very well (except the >> additional step of providing a patched GNU cpio for now). >> >> Reproducible images seem to make a lot of sense, also for users that >> don't know about the --reproducible option. Is there any reason why >> this is not done by default? >> >> Thanks, >> Giuseppe >> >> 1) https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree >> 2) https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/ No significant reason, except the penalty of the extra step, which fixes all the timestamps.