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These tools are intended to make it easier to verify that the binaries resulting from openSUSE builds are reproducible.

For this, we rebuild twice locally from source with variations in

  • date
  • hostname
  • number of CPU cores

and compare the results using the build-compare script that abstracts away some unavoidable (or unimportant) differences.

Setup:

  1. git clone this repo. Some parts of the code assume that it is available in ~/reproducibleopensuse

  2. install dependencies with make suseinstall

  3. export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/reproducibleopensuse

  4. make sure you can build a package with osc build --vm-type=kvm You probably need to adjust your ~/.oscrc

This config is known to work (except for huge packages like chromium that work with 8GB RAM):

[general]
apiurl = https://api.opensuse.org
status_mtime_heuristic = 1
build-memory = 4096
build-vmdisk-rootsize = 40960

Also to build as non-root user (recommended), without having to type passwords, you need to do echo 'YOURUSERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/build' > /etc/sudoers.d/oscbuild (or /usr/bin/obs-build on Debian)

Usage:

You can rebuild one package using

osc checkout openSUSE:Factory/update-test-trivial
cd $_
rbk

With some packages that come with a _multibuild file, you need to use multibuildrbk instead that still has limitations.

and you can rebuild a whole distribution using rebuildmany * in the project checkout dir.

This will create output files in RPMS* directories and some result files starting with .rb and .build (the dot is there to have them ignored by osc). The most interesting ones are RPMS/*-compare.out and RPMS/.build.log2

If you encounter a package that has diffs, you can use autoclassify to narrow down the sources of unreproducibility to a few bits. See the rbkt source for meaning of the bits.

You need osc >= 0.158 that understands the --build-opt param and build >= 20171128, that understands the --vm-custom-opt param to pass the modified base clock time to kvm. Both are available in openSUSE Leap 42.3 and OBS has packages for many other Linux distributions.