Re: dracut --reproducible by default

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 02.09.2015 14:11, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> On 25.08.2015 15:51, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>>> ping?
>>>
>>> Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 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.
> 
> do you think it makes sense to make --reproducible the default, or do
> you expect Dracut users, rpm-ostree in this case, to explicitly use it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
> 

I think, I'll make it the default.