GNU bug report logs - #33639
ISO installer image is broken on i686

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Message #115 received at 33639 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup <at> gmx.net>
Cc: bug-xorriso <at> gnu.org, pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de, 33639 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 23:43:54 +0200

Hi Thomas,

"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup <at> gmx.net> skribis:

> Florian Pelz wrote:
>> Yes, it seems fixed, I can confirm.
>
> Way back in december, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>...> Based on this and on a suggestion Ricardo made on IRC, I passed
>>...> -padding 10m and that solved the problem.  \o/
>
> Please do not forget to remove this -padding command.

Done in f6e3f0f9b1287eca120517a0161e3d0b1ed6ed44.

> If all files and directories have the same names and the same content,
> then xorriso runs with the same arguments and the same SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> value are supposed to create byte-identical result ISOs.

I’ve tried setting it but that doesn’t make any difference.

How did you visualize differences, Florian?  Diffoscope fails for me
here (missing tools and scalability issue.)

> In december, i wrote:
>>...> >   Creation Time: 1970010119010649
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>...> For reproducibility purposes we set timestamps and related things
>>...> to the Epoch.
>
> Is this independent of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ?

Yes.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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