[PATCH 1/7] builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages

From: Guillem Jover
Date: Sun Sep 20 2020 - 18:48:11 EST


We should not be encoding the timestamp, otherwise we end up generating
unreproducible files that cascade into unreproducible packages.

Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/package/builddeb | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 6df3c9f8b2da..b14abbe5afbb 100755
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ create_package() {
mkdir -p "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname"
cp debian/copyright "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/"
cp debian/changelog "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
- gzip -9 "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
+ gzip -n -9 "$pdir/usr/share/doc/$pname/changelog.Debian"
sh -c "cd '$pdir'; find . -type f ! -path './DEBIAN/*' -printf '%P\0' \
| xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums"

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2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d