Bug 12516

Summary: e2fsprogs: POT-​Creation-​Date removed non-deterministically
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky>
Component: coreAssignee: Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, ross.burton, stephano
Version: 2.5   
Target Milestone: 2.5   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: reproducible
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
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Description Juro Bystricky 2018-01-29 20:24:55 UTC 
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Various builds of e2fsprogs 1.43.7 package locales which may or may not have POT-​Creation-​Date removed. There is no obvious pattern, it is different locales each time. This suggests some kind of a race condition. (Please see the attached files). This (AFAIK) was not observed with the previous version of 1.43.5.
It is very easy to reproduce with two separate builds.
Comment 1 Juro Bystricky 2018-01-29 20:25:56 UTC 
Created attachment 4189 [details]
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Comment 2 Juro Bystricky 2018-01-29 20:26:43 UTC 
Created attachment 4190 [details]
diffoscope output comparing two builds.