Bug 15972

Summary: reproducibility issues after gettext update
Product: [QA/Testing] Functional (self) Testing Reporter: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand>
Component: oe-selftestAssignee: Unassigned <unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: JPEWhacker, randy.macleod, ross.burton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 5.3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: AB-INT
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2025-09-10 09:59:52 UTC 
We have some reproducibility issue since earlier this week, probably after gettext update merge.

f4b240b4d2c4 gettext, gettext-minimal-native: upgrade 0.23.1 -> 0.26

Strangely, this is appearing in the master branch, bud did not happen while the patch was in my branch. Still today, it does not happen with my branch, based on master.

AssertionError: The following deb packages are different and not in exclusion list:
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/deb/./x86-64-v3/diffutils-ptest_3.12-r0_amd64.deb
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/deb/./x86-64-v3/sed-ptest_4.9-r0_amd64.deb
The following ipk packages are different and not in exclusion list:
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/diffutils-ptest_3.12-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/flex-ptest_2.6.4-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/libexif-ptest_0.6.25-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/m4-ptest_1.4.20-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/sed-ptest_4.9-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
The following rpm packages are different and not in exclusion list:
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/diffutils-ptest-3.12-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/libgpg-error-ptest-1.55-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/sed-ptest-4.9-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm

https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20250910-yq6y7z5s/packages/diff-html/
https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20250909-jq1b9mvx/packages/diff-html/

I had a quick look at the recipes, but was not able no find anything wrong.
Comment 1 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2025-09-10 10:00:36 UTC 
reproducible alma8-vk-2 master completed at 2025-09-09 03:41:05+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/2445/steps/13/logs/stdio

reproducible debian12-vk-7 master completed at 2025-09-10 02:20:35+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/2455/steps/12/logs/stdio
Comment 2 Randy MacLeod 2025-09-11 14:57:26 UTC 
There were some changes in the Makefiles, which are used by ptest.
May no longer be occurring after additional patches merged.

Bug would remain that:
not all the inputs would be captured from the task hashes.
Comment 3 Ross Burton 2025-09-11 14:58:09 UTC 
Looks like it's dithering on whether some tools are available, which is interesting.
Comment 4 Mathieu Dubois-Briand 2025-09-12 06:43:58 UTC 
reproducible ubuntu2204-vk-1 master completed at 2025-09-11 02:22:58+00:00
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/2470/steps/12/logs/stdio
Comment 5 Randy MacLeod 2026-04-15 20:21:23 UTC 
YPBZ Meeting: Should bugs like this that:
 1. are against 5.3 
 2. haven't happened in ~ 6 months be resolved as WFM or
    bumped to 6.1 and dealt with at the >= 12 month mark?
Comment 6 Randy MacLeod 2026-04-23 15:20:23 UTC 
Not seen in > 6 months.