[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Make rpm builds more reproducible (Issue #2590)

[Simon J Mudd]

ok, so it depends on your point of view, that's clear.  For downstream "repackagers" there's clearly internal macro "mangling" and perhaps build environment differences specifically due to that, and while that's clearly a very important use case it's not the same as mine.  It may be that some of this behaviour needs to be optional, but again if the current rpm build process does not allow you to complete a rebuild correctly or it requires a large amount of investigation to work out how to achieve the end goal of reproducibly building packages then to some extent I think it's fragile.
The link you provide just goes to show how fragile the current process is if you look at it in any detail, even if general building it seems to work. I suspect/know that things are more complex now than they were in the initial rpm days.

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