Bug 10520

Summary: [meta-swupd] unnecessary changes during updates
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Other YP Layers Reporter: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly>
Component: meta-swupdAssignee: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Libertad <libertad.gonzalez.de.la.cruz>
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: libertad.gonzalez.de.la.cruz
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.3 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Patrick Ohly 2016-10-28 07:39:33 UTC 
With prelinking disabled (see bug #10518), there are still some differences between builds because of non-reproducible image creation, for example in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (order of entries is different).

Probably needs to be solved as part of core image building (Sorting the files after package install? Special adduser/addgroup which ensures sorting?).

This issue here is about checking that a full distro (like Ostro) has no unexpected changes during an update.
Comment 1 Patrick Ohly 2017-01-05 15:40:13 UTC 
See "[PATCH 1/1] rootfs-postcommands.bbclass: sort passwd entries".

I've not found other reasons for unnecessary changes during updates, so if that gets merged, I consider this issue resolved (for now...).