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authorAlexander Kjeldaas <ak@formalprivacy.com>2013-08-16 02:42:11 +0200
committerAlexander Kjeldaas <ak@formalprivacy.com>2014-04-05 08:41:06 +0200
commitf67015cae49400eba539b9ec8b9920643581c77c (patch)
treeffa1848edddba80941d5248f2c865a8a01e76b69 /pkgs/build-support/kernel
parentc69eb7c2c1d996ae07725ae9763a7484c2afb449 (diff)
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Make initrd and the kernel builds repeatable.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/build-support/kernel')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/kernel/cpio-clean.pl20
-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix5
-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.sh2
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/cpio-clean.pl b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/cpio-clean.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..de38dee49f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/cpio-clean.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+use strict;
+
+# Make inode number, link info and mtime consistent in order to get a consistent hash.
+#
+# Author: Alexander Kjeldaas <ak@formalprivacy.com>
+
+use Archive::Cpio;
+
+my $cpio = Archive::Cpio->new;
+my $IN = \*STDIN;
+my $ino = 1;
+$cpio->read_with_handler($IN, sub {
+        my ($e) = @_;
+        $e->{inode} = $ino;
+        $ino++;
+        $e->{nlink} = 1;
+        $e->{mtime} = 1;
+	$cpio->write_one(\*STDOUT, $e);
+    });
+$cpio->write_trailer(\*STDOUT);
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
index 4ddf0706e03e..0582ca553012 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 # `contents = {object = ...; symlink = /init;}' is a typical
 # argument.
 
-{stdenv, perl, cpio, contents, ubootChooser, compressor}:
+{stdenv, perl, perlArchiveCpio, cpio, contents, ubootChooser, compressor}:
 
 let
-  inputsFun = ubootName : [perl cpio]
+  inputsFun = ubootName : [perl cpio perlArchiveCpio ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ubootName != null) [ (ubootChooser ubootName) ];
   makeUInitrdFun = ubootName : (ubootName != null);
 in
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   exportReferencesGraph =
     map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x.symlink) x.object]) contents;
   pathsFromGraph = ./paths-from-graph.pl;
+  cpioClean = ./cpio-clean.pl;
 
   crossAttrs = {
     nativeBuildInputs = inputsFun stdenv.cross.platform.uboot;
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.sh b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.sh
index f6cadaf02819..17b261f98407 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ storePaths=$(perl $pathsFromGraph closure-*)
 
 # Put the closure in a gzipped cpio archive.
 mkdir -p $out
-(cd root && find * -print0 | cpio -o -H newc --null | $compressor > $out/initrd)
+(cd root && find * -print0 | cpio -o -H newc --null | perl $cpioClean | $compressor > $out/initrd)
 
 if [ -n "$makeUInitrd" ]; then
     mv $out/initrd $out/initrd.gz