initrd: reproducible build #48
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Use diffoscope to compare two built initrds process to ensure reproducibility. One can set the python path for robot with: `robot -P`
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While this may be nice for development and testing, does it really need to be used for comparison, where you would expect the images to always be the same, i.e. just use diff
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Maybe to reduce the changes (i.e. adding Initrd.in front of a lot of keywords), using
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and then OS.Set Environment Variable would be better?
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Set timestamp to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for initrd cpio content. When one exports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH before calling the initrd generator twice for the same initrd, the built image is binary identical.
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WIP need to implement reproducibility test.
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