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

From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:52:58 -0800

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

:)

live well,
  vagrant