Re: [oe-core][PATCHv15 1/6] emptty: add version 0.15.0

[Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>]

On Fri Feb 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM CST, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> On Thu Feb 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM CET, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
>> On Thu Feb 26, 2026 at 7:09 PM CET, Randolph Sapp wrote:
>>> On Thu Feb 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM CST, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
>>>> On Tue Feb 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM CET, Randolph Sapp via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>>>>> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Add emptty, a "Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY". This is a
>>>>> relatively lightweight display manager that supports x11 as well as
>>>>> wayland through both a CLI and an automatic login mechanism.
>>>>>
>>>>> This can effectively replace the custom init scripts for both x11
>>>>> (xserver-nodm-init) and wayland (weston-init) with a single tool with
>>>>> more verbose logging capabilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is split into two recipes. The emptty package provides the binary
>>>>> and various agnostic configs while the emptty-conf package provides the
>>>>> default configuration for the application itself. This RPROVIDES
>>>>> virtual-emptty-conf, allowing other recipes to provide their own
>>>>> configurations to override the default behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Hi Randolph,
>>>>
>>>> This patch has been in my branch for a week now, but we are seeing some
>>>> intermittent reproducibility issues.
>>>>
>>>> I opened a bugzilla entry by error, as for a second I thought this patch
>>>> was merged, so details can be found here:
>>>> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16171
>>>>
>>>> Diffoscope output is here:
>>>> https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20260212-ssslvz6_/packages/diff-html/
>>>>
>>>> Can you have a look at what is going wrong please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mathieu
>>>
>>> Now that the source epoch has been addressed [1] should I resubmit this version
>>> of the series? I won't be changing anything since the RFC [2] for the other
>>> issue reported on this series didn't get any comments.
>>>
>>> [1] https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/meta?id=70a74fa2bd9c374bd07b89b426a86991b1d93a5f
>>> [2] https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/topic/117730556
>>>
>>> - Randolph
>>
>> Hi Randolph,
>>
>> No the action is on my side, I just forgot to take back your series when
>> I took the source epoch fix.
>>
>> It will be part of my next build, thanks for the ping.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mathieu
>
> Hi Randolph,
>
> Sorry, I come with bad news again:
>
> AssertionError: The following rpm packages are different and not in exclusion list:
> /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/emptty-conf-1.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
> /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/emptty-conf-dbg-1.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
> /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/emptty-conf-dev-1.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/3463
> https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20260226-7ma9odle/packages/diff-html/
>
> So it looks like the same error as previously.
>
> Now, a first idea: is the version on the right side of diffoscope the
> correct one after your SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH fix? It looks like it is.
>
> If that's the case, maybe the left side comes out of sstate from before
> your SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH patch was applied, and so the test failure is a
> false positive. Incrementing PR might help to fix this.
>
> Any opinion?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu

Thanks Mathieu. Yeah, that looks like the old date. I'll bump the PR and we can
see if that does anything.

- Randolph