Gitian build for OS X is not matching on some machines

While building 6.5a2 I used a recently set up machine for building that showed differences on OpenSSL artifacts for OS X.

added GeorgKoppen201608 TorBrowserTeam201609R component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team priority::very high resolution::fixed severity::critical status::closed tbb-gitian type::defect labels

FWIW: I used KVM (using Debian Jessy) and testing with the LXC machine showed that the latter matched boklm's build.

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Summary: Gitian build on OS X is not matching on some machines to Gitian build for OS X is not matching on some machines

The plot thickens a bit: the stable series is not affected it seems. I get the same hashes on my newly set up build machine.

Did you try rebuilding 6.5a2 on the same machine again, to see if you still get a different build, or if it was something only happening once?

Yes, rebuilding the OS X part just finished and I still get a different build. Thus, this is reproducible and happens only with the alphas.

Bisecting gives me 3acd55740d447b2afb47ab5da5e3eece93337829 as the first bad commit. bug_19856 (https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/gk/tor-browser-bundle.git/commit/?h=bug_19856) has a possible fix reverting to libfaketime for the gitian-utils part for OS X which fixes the problem for me. I am open to better solutions, though, if we can get to one before we need to build the next alpha.

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Status: new to needs_review
Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201608 deleted, GeorgKoppen201608, TorBrowserTeam201608R added

Moving review tickets to September

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201608R deleted, TorBrowserTeam201609R added

As we don't have a better solution at the moment, reverting to libfaketime for this part looks like a good idea. The patch looks good.

Thanks. This is commit 73a698d2e1875763c153282a0eb19c259bd3788b on master.

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Resolution: N/A to fixed
Status: needs_review to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #20184 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#19856 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/applications/tor-browser#20184 (closed)