[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] utils/genrandconfig: only do reproducible builds with diffoscope

Atharva Lele itsatharva at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 18:10:08 UTC 2019


On Sunday, August 4, 2019 2:43:19 PM IST Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> After a few weeks of running reproducible builds in the autobuilders,
> we found out that such builds without a diffoscope analysis are pretty
> useless: the cmp on the tarballs doesn't help us fix the
> reproducibility issue.
> 
> So, let's only do reproducible builds when diffoscope is available.

That makes sense.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

Tested with and without diffoscope installed. Does not enable BR2_REPRODUCIBLE 
if diffoscope is not installed.

Tested-by: Atharva Lele <itsatharva at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Atharva Lele <itsatharva at gmail.com>

Regards,
Atharva Lele




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