debrepro1

Usage

Overview

debrepro will build a given source directory twice, with a set of variations between the first and the second build, and compare the produced binary packages. If diffoscope is installed, it is used to compare non-matching binaries. If disorderfs is installed, it is used during the build to inject non-determinism in filesystem listing operations.

SOURCEDIR must be a directory containing an unpacked Debian source package. If SOURCEDIR is omitted, the current directory is assumed.

Output directory

At the very end of a build, debrepro will inform the location of the output directory where the build artifacts can be found. In that directory, you will find:

$OUTPUTDIR/first

Contains the results of the first build, including a copy of the source tree, and the resulting binary packages.

$OUTPUTDIR/first/build.sh

Contains the exact build script that was used in the first build.

$OUTPUTDIR/second

Contains the results of the second build, including a copy of the source tree, and the resulting binary packages.

$OUTPUTDIR/second/build.sh

Contains the exact build script that was used in the second build.

Taking a diff(1) between $OUTPUTDIR/first/build.sh and $OUTPUTDIR/second/build.sh is an excellent way of figuring out exactly what changed between the two builds.

Supported variations

user

The $USER environment variable will contain different values between the first and second builds.

path

During the second build, a fake, non-existing directory will be appended to the $PATH environment variable.

umask

The builds will use different umask settings.

locale

Both $LC_ALL and $LANG will be different across the two builds.

timezone

$TZ will be different across builds.

filesystem-ordering

If disorderfs is installed, both builds will be done under a disorderfs overlay directory. This will cause filesystem listing operations to be return items in a non-deterministic order.

time

The second build will be executed 213 days, 7 hours and 13 minutes in the future with regards to the current time (using faketime(1)).

Options

-s VARIATION, --skip VARIATION

Don't perform the named VARIATION. Variation names are the ones used in their description in section SUPPORTED VARIATIONS.

-b COMMAND, --before-second-build COMMAND

Run COMMAND before performing the second build. This can be used for example to apply a patch to a source tree for the second build, and check whether (or how) the resulting binaries are affected.

Examples:

  $ debrepro --before-second-build "git checkout branch-with-changes"
  $ debrepro --before-second-build "patch -p1 < /path/to/patch"

-B COMMAND, --build-command COMMAND

Use custom build command. Default: dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc.

If a custom build command is specified, the restriction of only running against a Debian source tree is relaxed and you can run debrepro against any source directory.

-a PATTERN, --artifact-pattern PATTERN

Define a file glob pattern to determine which artifacts need to be compared across the builds. Default: ../*.deb.

-n, --no-copy

Do not copy the source directory to the temporary work directory before each build. Use this to run debrepro against the source directory directly.

-t TIME, --timeout TIME

Apply a timeout to all builds. TIME must be a time specification compatible with GNU timeout(1).

-h, --help

Display this help message and exit.

Exit status

0

Package is reproducible.

Reproducible here means that the two builds produced the exactly the same binaries, under the set of variations that debrepro tests. Other sources of non-determinism in builds that are not yet tested might still affect builds in the wild.

1

Package is not reproducible.

2

The given input is not a valid Debian source package.

3

Required programs are missing.