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* bug#22533: Non-determinism in python-3 ".pyc" bytecode
@ 2016-02-02  5:15 Leo Famulari
  2016-02-02  8:54 ` Leo Famulari
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2016-02-02  5:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 22533

While preparing a package for borg [0], I found that the built output
was not reproducible. The problem is that the bytecode compiler [1] for
Python 3.4.3 (our current version) encodes the mtime of the
corresponding Python source file in the output. This is described in
PEP-3147 [2], and the responsible Python code is referenced below [3].

I tested a few of our existing python-3 packages: python-ccm,
python-pysam, and python-scripttest all exhibit the same problem.

We fixed this in python-2 with the patch
python-2.7-source-date-epoch.patch, but I don't know how to write this
patch for python-3.

Can somebody write this patch?

I asked about this on #debian-reproducible and they said that it wasn't
an issue for Debian since they don't ship bytecode, but instead generate
it at install time. Of course, that doesn't really apply to Guix.

I used diffoscope-34 to inspect the build outputs to find this, and you
can see the report here:
https://famulari.name/misc/7c55c9e97f668234ddea50299d986f14/borg-diffoscope-report.html

It's first demonstrated in the file
...-borg-0.30.0/lib/python3.4/site-packages/__pycache__/site.cpython-34.pyc.

The first 2 bytes are the "magic numbers" described in PEP-3147, which
specify the version of the bytecode format. The next 2 bytes are the
problematic timestamp, as described in the PEP-3147.

[0]
http://borgbackup.github.io/

[1]
https://docs.python.org/3/library/py_compile.html

[2]
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/

[3] Check out the Guix git commit 4efc8eb27502c, and from there:
$ tar xf $(./pre-inst-env guix build --source python-3)
$ sed -n 139,140p Python-3.4.3/Lib/py_compile.py
    bytecode = importlib._bootstrap._code_to_bytecode(
            code, source_stats['mtime'], source_stats['size'])

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2016-02-02  5:15 bug#22533: Non-determinism in python-3 ".pyc" bytecode Leo Famulari
2016-02-02  8:54 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-02 20:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-04 23:17   ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-29 23:11     ` Cyril Roelandt
2016-03-29 23:13     ` Cyril Roelandt
2016-04-06  8:29       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-26 13:41 ` bug#22533: Python bytecode reproducibility Marius Bakke
2018-03-03 22:37   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-04  9:21     ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-04 12:46       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-04 15:30         ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-04 19:18         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05  0:02           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05  0:05             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 15:36               ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-05 20:33                 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-05 21:46                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 22:02               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 22:06             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 23:21           ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-06 13:28             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-06 14:43               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-06 14:57                 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-08 10:39           ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-01-14 13:40             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-03 21:22               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-04 22:39                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-05  9:25     ` Ludovic Courtès

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