[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-27499) Make build of Asterisk reproducible, if so required

[Matt Fredrickson (JIRA)]

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Matt Fredrickson commented on ASTERISK-27499:
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I'm thinking that there's not much else here to do from a triage perspective.  

Tzafrir, since you have already sent an email to the -dev list and you already know how the patch contribution process works, I'm going to acknowledge this issue (to remove it from the triage queue) and let you submit any patches that need to go in via gerrit.  

Let me know if you have a difference of opinion about this course of action.

> Make build of Asterisk reproducible, if so required
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-27499
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27499
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: None
>    Affects Versions: 13.18.4, 15.1.4
>            Reporter: Tzafrir Cohen
>            Severity: Minor
>
> The following is a description of a simple patch I already have in the Debian package. I expect this would be a low hanging fruit for someone else to implement.
> Reproducible builds are intended to guarantee that a binary was built from a given source tree by the fact that building it again would give exactly  the same result. This has nice implications in trust. Normally you don't need it, but it may be handy in many cases.
> This breaks when the result of the build changes due to differences in the build environment: build time, host name, and such.
> The patch does the following:
> 1. In Makefile: call 'sort' with locale explicitly set to 'C' to make sure sort order does not differ by locales. I'm not 100% sure this is needed with the module naming convention, but it wouldn't hurt.
> 2. build_tools/make_build_h: This one heavily depends on the build environment. It would be nice to avoid that. A reproducible build build environment must set the variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (See https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ ). Thus if this variable is set, some values could be overridden (be it to arbitrary values) and not set from the build environment:
>    * HOSTNAME
>    * KERNEL
>    * MACHINE
>    * USER
>    * DATE



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