Subject: Re: Bug#1034311: reprotest: make it easier to compare against an existing build (eg from ftp.d.o)

From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:15:06 -0700

On 2024-03-08, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-04-12, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> <vagrantc> i guess reprotest maybe should grow an option to do
>>             --control-build /path/to/packages/ 
>>             --vary=build_path=/use/this/build/path ... 
>>            to make it easier to use reprotest to compare against an existing build
>> <h01ger>   YES
>> <vagrantc> e.g. there is no way to disable buidl path variations when comparing
>>             against an arbitrary build
>> <h01ger>   i'm reporting this as a bug to the bts, quoting your words here. (ok?)
>> <vagrantc> reprotest can control it's own builds ... but if i want to use reprotest
>>            against the archive packages or an sbuild 
>>            or pbuilder build package ... it will always have a different build path
>
> Forgot about this bug, but I have since implemented a proof-of-concept
> of this:
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/-/commits/wip-specify-build-path?ref_type=heads

And merged in 0.7.27 ... which resolves the one specific issue mentioned
... are there any other must-haves we need to consider this bug closed?

Better documentation of how to actually do this? :)

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  vagrant