[CDRIVER-1399] Reproducible Debian package builds Created: 18/Jul/16  Updated: 10/Aug/16  Resolved: 20/Jul/16

Status: Closed
Project: C Driver
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 1.4.0

Type: New Feature Priority: Minor - P4
Reporter: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis Assignee: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
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Attachments: Text File libmongoc.diff.txt    

 Description   

From Debian developer Chris Lamb:

Whilst working on the "reproducible builds" effort [0], we noticed
that libmongoc could not be built reproducibly.

Patch attached.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 20/Jul/16 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'ajdavis', u'name': u'A. Jesse Jiryu Davis', u'email': u'jesse@mongodb.com'}

Message: CDRIVER-1399 reproducible Debian build
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/libbson/commit/e9ed5a33f46f56b9354435b70a7ce85be152eb47

Comment by Githook User [ 20/Jul/16 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'ajdavis', u'name': u'A. Jesse Jiryu Davis', u'email': u'jesse@mongodb.com'}

Message: CDRIVER-1399 reproducible Debian build
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/c8b92ecc820596888b72d96f084bdb4d99a618fc

Comment by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis [ 18/Jul/16 ]

It uses an environment variable called SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH so that make docs can be executed twice on two different dates and still produce the identical files.

https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

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