From bedb16105dd6742d3209af7ef45c23a8bb1c077f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jérôme Pouiller Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:58:56 +0100 Subject: Config.in: improve BR2_REPRODUCIBLE help text MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- Config.in | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in index 5cf0c4d29..98096dff1 100644 --- a/Config.in +++ b/Config.in @@ -707,6 +707,12 @@ config BR2_REPRODUCIBLE this allows to generate exactly identical binaries from one build to the other, including on different machines. + The current implementation is restricted to builds with the + same output directory. Many (absolute) paths are recorded in + intermediary files, and it is very likely that some of these + paths leak into the target rootfs. If you build with the + same O=... path, however, the result is identical. + This is labeled as an experimental feature, as not all packages behave properly to ensure reproducibility. -- cgit v1.2.3