bug#22533: Python bytecode reproducibility

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Unfortunately, this doesn’t fix all reproducibility problems with numpy:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/__config__.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/__config__.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/exec_command.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/exec_command.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/system_info.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/distutils/__pycache__/system_info.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/__config__.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/__config__.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> Binary files 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/testing/nose_tools/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
>  and 
> /gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/testing/nose_tools/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
>  differ
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Here’s what diffoscope says:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diffoscope 
/gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0{-check,}/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
--- 
/gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0-check/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
+++ 
/gnu/store/kd06ql8fynlydymzhhnwk2lh0778dwcc-python-numpy-1.14.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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 00000040: 5a01 6403 5300 2904 7a06 312e 3134 2e30  Z.d.S.).z.1.14.0
 00000050: da28 3639 3134 6262 3431 6630 6662 3363  .(6914bb41f0fb3c
 00000060: 3162 6135 3030 6261 6534 6537 6436 3731  1ba500bae4e7d671
 00000070: 6461 3935 3336 3738 3666 544e 2905 da0d  da9536786fTN)...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In other words: this is the timestamp field of the pyc file.

Maybe this can be avoided by setting DETERMINISTIC_BUILD in the
python-build-system?

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Ricardo

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