Strange package checksum report

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Jan 25 10:30:44 UTC 2015


Garrett Wollman <wollman at bimajority.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > These are Pyhon bytecode files. They are automatically regenerated if
> > you have write access to them and Python thinks they are stale when it
> > tries to load them.  Apparently, Python's definition of "stale" is
> > slightly more complex than just comparing timestamps; they are one of
> > the reasons why Baptiste gave up reproducible package builds.
> That's unfortunate.

Well, it's a bug.

I assume that you're using official packages and don't have a locally
compiled Python interpreter or anything like that?

Could you perhaps turn on auditing in order to find out what's touching
these files?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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