The FreeBSD base system is a reproducible build[1] with a minor exception: the build metadata (timestamps, user, hostname, etc.) included in the kernel and loader. With the default, non-reproducible build the kernel ident looks like: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA5 #4 r338195: Mon Jan 1 10:11:12 EDT 2018 user_at_hostname:/path/to/freebsd/src and the loader ident: FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 (Mon Jan 1 10:11:12 EDT 2018 user_at_hostname) With reproducible builds enabled the kernel ident looks like: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA5 r338195 and the loader ident: FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 I would like to enable the REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD knob by default for the 12.0 release, and propose we do this by adding a step to switch the default to the list of changes[2] that re_at_ commits to the branch as part of the release process. [1] https://reproducible-builds.org [2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-head.htmlReceived on Mon Sep 10 2018 - 12:56:36 UTC
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