Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#16662 new enhancement

More reproduceable hpkg checksums

Reported by: kallisti5 Owned by: bonefish
Priority: low Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Build System Version: R1/Development
Keywords: dedup ipfs Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

Haiku packages are not reproducible.

(If I build vim-7.2-1-x86_64.hpkg twice, the checksum will wildly vary each time.)

There are places however we could greatly improve the reproducibility however, one example is patching gcc2 to stop putting timestamps in all object files it generates.

The more reproducible hpkg files are when built, the more Haiku could potentially leverage de-duplication and similar tech to reduce the storage size of repositories, and increase the ability for p2p hosting of them.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by kallisti5, 4 years ago

I should note, 100% reproducible builds are unlikely. The goal here is to make them "more reproducible" where some chunk dedup would be beneficial.

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