On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:34:32PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
> 
> >> I've found 'diffoscope' to be useful when troubleshooting
> >> reproducibility problems. E.g. by running it on two cancelled builds, or
> >> by installing to different output paths with a superficial change to the
> >> expression. It will show sections that differs which may aid locating
> >> the offending code.
> >>
> >
> > Yes. I see that diffoscope complains about missing 'xxd'. That may be
> > useful to package (unless we already have it and I'm just oblivious).
> 
> 'xxd' is distributed with the 'vim' package. Is the error fatal? Perhaps
> we should patch diffoscope with the absolute path to xxd.

The warning message in the source code is:

"xxd not available in path. Falling back to Python hexlify."

So, I guess the built-in hexlify is a fine fall-back for now.