Debian Bug report logs - #913195
netmrg: Make netmrg reproducible

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Snahil Singh <singhsnahil@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: netmrg: Make netmrg reproducible

Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 23:09:25 +0000

Package: netmrg
Version: 0.20-7.2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

While working on Reproducible Builds effort[0], I found that netmrg
could not be built reproducibly because in the var/lib/rrd/Makefile.am, rrdtool is picking current time
to create the database. So, in order to make it reproducible, need to
pass '--start' argument with value as 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH'[1] to the
rrdtool. Please find attached patch below for the changes in the
Makefile.am.

But the changes can be implemented only if netmrg is upgraded to follow
latest debian/rules and debian/compat because currently it won't pick any
changes in the Makefile as it's following old debian rules and
debian/compat(i.e. equal to 5) and so it gets the Makefile shipped in the
tarball. So, once the debian/rules and debian/compat
(>=10) are upgraded to work with latest debhelper, dh-autoreconf can
function and regenerate Makefile on every build and therefore, the
changes in the patch(given below) can be implemented and can work
towards making netmrg reproducible.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this.

[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

Thank you
Snahil Singh

===================== begin patch ==========================
--- netmrg-0.20.orig/var/lib/rrd/Makefile.am
+++ netmrg-0.20/var/lib/rrd/Makefile.am
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ netmrg_var_lib_DATA = $(RRDS)

 $(RRDS) :
 	@echo "  RRD    $@"
-   @$(RRDTOOL) create zero.rrd DS:mon_25:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0:1:1 RRA:LAST:0:1:1 RRA:MAX:0:1:1
+   @$(RRDTOOL) create --start $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) zero.rrd DS:mon_25:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0:1:1 RRA:LAST:0:1:1 RRA:MAX:0:1:1

============================================================

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.93-linuxkit-aufs (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages netmrg depends on:
ii  adduser                                      3.118
pn  apache2 | httpd                              <none>
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                        1.5.69
pn  default-mysql-client | virtual-mysql-client  <none>
ii  libc6                                        2.27-7
ii  libgcc1                                      1:8.2.0-9
ii  libmariadbclient18                           1:10.1.35-1
ii  libsnmp30                                    5.7.3+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libstdc++6                                   8.2.0-9
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1
pn  php | php-cgi                                <none>
pn  php-cli                                      <none>
pn  php-mysql                                    <none>
ii  rrdtool                                      1.7.0-1+b3
pn  wwwconfig-common                             <none>
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

netmrg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages netmrg suggests:
pn  default-mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server  <none>

Message #10 received at 913195-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 412547-done@bugs.debian.org,412691-done@bugs.debian.org,422218-done@bugs.debian.org,913195-done@bugs.debian.org,913196-done@bugs.debian.org,

Cc: netmrg@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#913212: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 17:24:36 +0000

Version: 0.20-7.2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package netmrg has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/913212

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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