Closed Bug 1378663 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

symbolstore.py produces indeterministic output

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

52 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mozillabmw, Unassigned)

Details

Attachments

(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

Attached patch patch to fix this (obsolete) — Splinter Review
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170504000000

Steps to reproduce:

building the thunderbird-52.2.1 package in the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution with disposable VMs using
osc build --vm-type=kvm


Actual results:

/usr/share/mozilla/thunderbird-52.2.1-0.0.x86_64-1330-symbols.zip
contains entries in partially random order (because filesystems return directory listings in random order) and the current 'sort' does not care about files with same sizes.

e.g. diff shows
 thunderbird-bin/507557B62B810AB2B9526CC41AC9EF540/thunderbird-bin.sym
-libclearkey.so/14347486AF1FB39B7ECB10C3BB64860A0/libclearkey.so.sym
 crashreporter/EF17DDE9475012F900E432384A5F8C9E0/crashreporter.sym
+libclearkey.so/14347486AF1FB39B7ECB10C3BB64860A0/libclearkey.so.sym
 plugin-container/C92A8E2333A589AF6D9DA6F1F14259FA0/plugin-container.sym
 xpcshell/F6F4DB4DB50E4B23A9685CA63AC1ED8A0/xpcshell.sym
-libfake.so/EFD23600F1348490A99C9DF270CEA3550/libfake.so.sym
 libmozavutil.so/C70DADE5B5F6D8B4E9E2EC6B146C88A40/libmozavutil.so.sym
+libfake.so/EFD23600F1348490A99C9DF270CEA3550/libfake.so.sym
 liblgpllibs.so/6CBD5E394B991B4E19A9FE60E70FC0D80/liblgpllibs.so.sym



Expected results:

symbols.zip content should not differ between builds.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this matters.
actually, the patch seems not to help. There are still such diffs in
thunderbird-52.2.1-0.0.x86_64-1330-symbols.txt
I'm testing some other patches...
Component: Untriaged → Build Config
Attachment #8883831 - Attachment is obsolete: true
This patch no longer applies to recent versions. It also looks like recent versions do sort the output. See https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/files.py#907-909 called from https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/files.py#907-909 from https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/Makefile#290

This should be fixed in Thunderbird 55 when it gets released.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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