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| -rw-r--r-- | man/mkinitcpio.8.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | mkinitcpio | 23 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/mkinitcpio.8.txt b/man/mkinitcpio.8.txt index 931a167..6a9b59e 100644 --- a/man/mkinitcpio.8.txt +++ b/man/mkinitcpio.8.txt @@ -301,6 +301,22 @@ These are only the variables that the core of mkinitcpio honor. Additional hooks may look for other environment variables and should be documented by the help output for the hook. +Reproducibility +--------------- +mkinitcpio aims to create reproducible initramfs images by default. + +This means that two subsequent runs of mkinitcpio should produce two files +that are identical at the binary level. + +Timestamps within the initramfs are set to the Unix epoch of 1970-01-01. + +Note that in order for the build to be fully reproducible, the compressor +specified (e.g. gzip, xz) must also produce reproducible archives. At the time +of writing, as an inexhaustive example, the lzop compressor is incapable of +producing reproducible archives due to the insertion of a runtime timestamp. + +More information can be found at https://reproducible-builds.org. + Files ----- '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf':: @@ -211,25 +211,28 @@ build_image() { ;; esac - cpio_opts=('-0' '-o' '-H' 'newc') - (( _optquiet )) && cpio_opts+=('--quiet') - if (( EUID != 0 )); then - warning 'Not building as root, ownership cannot be preserved' - cpio_opts+=('-R' '0:0') - fi - pushd "$BUILDROOT" >/dev/null - find . -mindepth 1 -printf '%P\0' | - LANG=C bsdcpio "${cpio_opts[@]}" | + + # Reproducibility: set all timestamps to 0 + find . -mindepth 1 -execdir touch -hcd "@0" "{}" + + + find . -mindepth 1 -printf '%P\0' | sort -z | + LANG=C bsdtar --null -cnf - -T - | + LANG=C bsdtar --uid 0 --gid 0 --null -cf - --format=newc @- | $compress "${COMPRESSION_OPTIONS[@]}" > "$out" + pipesave=("${PIPESTATUS[@]}") # save immediately popd >/dev/null if (( pipesave[0] )); then errmsg="find reported an error" elif (( pipesave[1] )); then - errmsg="bsdcpio reported an error" + errmsg="sort reported an error" elif (( pipesave[2] )); then + errmsg="bsdtar (step 1) reported an error" + elif (( pipesave[3] )); then + errmsg="bsdtar (step 2) reported an error" + elif (( pipesave[4] )); then errmsg="$compress reported an error" fi |