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Without these changes, building this package twice does not produce the bit-by-bit identical result each time, making it harder to detect CI breaches. You can read more about this at https://reproducible-builds.org/ .

Fixing bit-by-bit reproducibility also has additional advantages, such as avoiding hard-to-reproduce bugs, making content-addressed storage more effective and reducing rebuilds in such systems.

Based on the work done in Debian and documented at https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/examples/hooks/reproducible/0139-reproducible-texlive-binaries-fmt-files.hook.chroot

Fixes #192736

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@raboof raboof added the 6.topic: reproducible builds Run nix-build twice and get the same result. label Oct 17, 2022
@github-actions github-actions bot added the 6.topic: TeX Issues regarding texlive and TeX in general label Oct 17, 2022
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@ofborg ofborg bot added 10.rebuild-darwin: 11-100 This PR causes between 11 and 100 packages to rebuild on Darwin. 10.rebuild-linux: 501+ This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and should normally target the staging branches. 10.rebuild-linux: 2501-5000 This PR causes many rebuilds on Linux and should target the staging branches. labels Oct 17, 2022
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veprbl commented Oct 17, 2022

@GrahamcOfBorg build tests.texlive

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raboof commented Oct 18, 2022

@GrahamcOfBorg build tests.texlive

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veprbl commented Oct 18, 2022

@GrahamcOfBorg build tests.texlive

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raboof commented Oct 18, 2022

(I assume you retargeted this PR to master to see if the tests.texlive do succeed there, and if they do we'll retarget back to staging because of the rebuild count? Makes sense to me! 🤞 )

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veprbl commented Oct 18, 2022

texlive is only a few hundred rebuilds, we usually don't target it to master.

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raboof commented Oct 18, 2022 •
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Hmm, ofborg is reporting 2501-5000 for linux though 🤔

Interesting to see the tests fail when targeting master as well, though - they seem to pass for me locally. Looking into it, but if you can provide any hints I'm all ears :)

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veprbl commented Oct 18, 2022

The /nix/store/h374kiml5r1gviflbdmgn75001p4dj5j-reproducible_exception_strings.patch.drv doesn't build for me

error: Normalized patch '/private/tmp/nix-build-reproducible_exception_strings.patch.drv-0/patch' is empty (while the fetched file was not)!
Did you maybe fetch a HTML representation of a patch instead of a raw patch?
Fetched file was:
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<title>#1009196 - texlive-binaries: Reproducible content of .fmt files - Debian Bug report logs</title>
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<h1>Debian Bug report logs - 
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texlive-binaries: Reproducible content of .fmt files</h1>
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texlive: create reproducible .fmt files
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Without these changes, building this package twice does not produce the bit-by-bit identical result each time, making it harder to detect CI breaches. You can read more about this at https://reproducible-builds.org/ .

Fixing bit-by-bit reproducibility also has additional advantages, such as avoiding hard-to-reproduce bugs, making content-addressed storage more effective and reducing rebuilds in such systems.

Based on the work done in Debian and documented at
https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/examples/hooks/reproducible/0139-reproducible-texlive-binaries-fmt-files.hook.chroot

Fixes NixOS#192736
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raboof commented Oct 18, 2022

The /nix/store/h374kiml5r1gviflbdmgn75001p4dj5j-reproducible_exception_strings.patch.drv doesn't build for me

Argh, hashes not getting invalidated when the input URL changes strikes again... fixing

@GrahamcOfBorg build tests.texlive

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if [[ -d share/texmf-var/web2c/luahbtex ]]
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cd share/texmf-var/web2c/luahbtex
faketime $(date --utc -d@$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH --iso-8601=seconds) luahbtex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini
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Your link does not mention luahbtex, and the engines are supposed to be completely different. I assume you found an additional issue with it?

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correct, though I didn't manage to investigate it sufficiently to write up a useful upstream report yet.

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vcunat commented Oct 30, 2022

This PR broke scheme-minimal: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/196758219
/cc PR #198236

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raboof commented Oct 30, 2022

This PR broke scheme-minimal: https://hydra.nixos.org/build/196758219 /cc PR #198236

Ouch, sorry about that. I can reproduce, though it's not obvious to me yet how this change would cause that problem. I'll dig in further, but possibly I won't get to it properly before Tuesday. If that holds up other things then feel free to revert I guess :(

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veprbl commented Oct 31, 2022

@raboof Should we revert for now? It might be worth exploring where the date is used in the source code. I've tried looking into that previously without success, but if we can patch it, it should be a simpler change, possibly even upstreamable.

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raboof commented Oct 31, 2022

@raboof Should we revert for now?

I'm not familiar enough with the staging process to judge how urgent it is to resolve this problem. If it's urgent then, as said, revert - but if it can wait until tomorrow I would prefer to "roll forward".

It might be worth exploring where the date is used in the source code. I've tried looking into that previously without success, but if we can patch it, it should be a simpler change, possibly even upstreamable.

For the order of the hyphenation exception strings, this patch has already been proposed upstream, but they seem to be discussing other ways to fix it.

For the date in the ini, I agree it might be neater to adapt this with a patch instead of using faketime. The Debian notes at https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/examples/hooks/reproducible/0139-reproducible-texlive-binaries-fmt-files.hook.chroot#L12 suggest that this was also already brought up upstream and they didn't want to have it fixed, though I didn't find the upstream discussion to find out why yet.

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vcunat commented Oct 31, 2022

The current batch is only waiting for the openssl critical security update, to be released tomorrow (2022-11-01, 13:00-17:00 UTC). I'll revert around that point if not resolved by then.

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texlive.combined.scheme-minimal: fix build
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Follow-up on NixOS#196435, fixing NixOS#196435 (comment)

Needed to make NixOS#198236 pass
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raboof commented Nov 1, 2022

Fixed in #198892 - though I'm not sure if that is supposed to target staging or staging-next?

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texlive.combined.scheme-minimal: fix build
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Follow-up on #196435, fixing #196435 (comment)

Needed to make #198236 pass
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