Displaying 1 result from an estimated 1 matches for "diffoscop".
Did you mean:
diffoscope
2017 Apr 25
1
Generate reproducible output independently of the build path
...can more easily compare their builds with others, as well as other reasons.
At the moment about 400 out of 26000 Debian packages are unreproducible due to how R writes paths.rds files as well as RDB files. An example diff is here:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/r-cran-tensor.html
I've attached a patch (applies to both 3.3.3 and 3.4) that fixes this issue; however I know it's not perfect and would welcome feedback on how to make it acceptable to the R project.
For example, I've tried to limit the effects of the patch only to the RDB...