[Buildroot] [1/1] fs/cpio: sort 'find' utility output (reproducible builds)

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Jun 29 16:05:56 UTC 2020


Yurii, All,

On 2020-06-29 15:37 +0300, Yurii Monakov spake thusly:
> Order of find utility results are not sorted and depend on items
> attributes, so cpio produces different results across machines.
> 
> This patch sorts find output before piping to cpio to make
> builds reproducible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yurii Monakov <monakov.y at gmail.com>

Thanks for the ptatch, but see below...

> ---
>  fs/cpio/cpio.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cpio/cpio.mk b/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
> index 28a435dd5e..73837ddecb 100644
> --- a/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
> +++ b/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ROOTFS_CPIO_OPTS += --reproducible
>  endif
>  
>  define ROOTFS_CPIO_CMD
> -	cd $(TARGET_DIR) && find . | cpio $(ROOTFS_CPIO_OPTS) --quiet -o -H newc > $@
> +	cd $(TARGET_DIR) && find . | sort | cpio $(ROOTFS_CPIO_OPTS) --quiet -o -H newc > $@

sort order depends on the locale, so you also have to enforce the locale
to guarantee reproducibility; this is usually done with:

    ... |LC_ALL=C sort |...

So I've fixed that, wrapped the line that is now too long, and reworded
the commit log slightly.

Applied to master, thanks.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  endef
>  
>  ifeq ($(BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_UIMAGE),y)
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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