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#9 %autosetup -S git creates a git commit which has irreproducible hash
Closed by zbyszek. Opened by zbyszek.

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+ /usr/bin/git init -q
+ /usr/bin/git config user.name rpm-build
+ /usr/bin/git config user.email '<rpm-build>'
+ /usr/bin/git config gc.auto 0
+ /usr/bin/git add --force .
+ /usr/bin/git commit -q --allow-empty -a --author 'rpm-build <rpm-build>' -m 'python-oslo-log-5.3.0 base'
+ /usr/bin/git checkout --track -b rpm-build
...

If the package records the git hash in build, it'll be different every time.

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2930

The pull request was merged so this fix should be available in rpm 4.20.

From cache/build/ffmpeg-6.1.1-15.fc41/rebuild/build.log:

+ cd ffmpeg-6.1.1
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ /usr/bin/git init -q
+ /usr/bin/git config user.name rpm-build
+ /usr/bin/git config user.email '<rpm-build>'
+ /usr/bin/git config gc.auto 0
+ /usr/bin/git add --force .
+ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=@1718236800
+ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=@1718236800
+ /usr/bin/git commit -q --allow-empty -a --author 'rpm-build <rpm-build>' -m 'ffmpeg-6.1.1 base'
+ /usr/bin/git checkout --track -b rpm-build
Switched to a new branch 'rpm-build'
branch 'rpm-build' set up to track 'master'.
+ /usr/lib/rpm/rpmuncompress /builddir/build/SOURCES/ffmpeg-codec-choice.patch
+ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=@1718236800
+ /usr/bin/git am --reject -q
.git/rebase-apply/patch:30: trailing whitespace.
    .p.video_codec     = 
Checking patch libavformat/matroskaenc.c...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3538 (offset 217 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 3624 (offset 227 lines).
Applied patch libavformat/matroskaenc.c cleanly.
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.
...

And the binary rpms are reproducible.

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

(This is with rpm-libs-4.19.91-13.fc41.x86_64, i.e. rpm-4.20 except that cmake does not allow the version to be specified properly.)
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