apt: fix reproducibility issue

In oe-selftest of reproducibility, recipe apt has reproducibility issue:

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2025-09-20 17:09:18,986 - oe-selftest - INFO - ======================================================================
2025-09-20 17:09:18,986 - oe-selftest - INFO - FAIL: test_reproducible_builds (reproducible.ReproducibleTests)
2025-09-20 17:09:18,986 - oe-selftest - INFO - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-09-20 17:09:18,986 - oe-selftest - INFO - Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/buildarea5/hjia/contrib/openembedded-core-contrib/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/reproducible.py", line 406, in test_reproducible_builds
    self.fail('\n'.join(fails))
AssertionError: The following deb packages are different and not in exclusion list:
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/deb/./x86-64-v3/apt-dbg_3.0.3-r0_amd64.deb
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/deb/./x86-64-v3/apt_3.0.3-r0_amd64.deb
The following ipk packages are different and not in exclusion list:
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/apt-dbg_3.0.3-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/ipk/./x86-64-v3/apt_3.0.3-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk
The following rpm packages are different and not in exclusion list:
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/apt-3.0.3-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/apt-dbg-3.0.3-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
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Due to upstream apt commit [1], it calls `id -gn root' in cmake
to set ROOT_GROUP if not define. The output of `id -gn root' may
differ in the compared builds which caused reproducibility issue
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|build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-oe-linux/apt/
3.0.3/temp/log.do_configure:124:-- Found root group: wheel
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|build-st/reproducibleA/tmp/work/x86-64-v3-oe-linux/apt/3.0.3/
temp/log.do_configure:124:-- Found root group: root
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Explicitly set ROOT_GROUP = "root" for cmake other than call `id -gn root'
to support reproducibility

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/6f1f3c9afdb6ade6a7be110b90c8fc9e603254cf

Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_3.0.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_3.0.3.bb
index 75d85dbbce3406f633a8fd34752151eece97f83a..7f0a38ab2933fce71c6a2c3eeb90bfe8c2274e6d 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_3.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_3.0.3.bb
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE:append = " -DCURRENT_VENDOR=debian -DWITH_DOC=False \
     -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_SECCOMP=True \
     -DWITH_TESTS=False \
     -DCOMMON_ARCH=${DPKG_ARCH} \
+    -DROOT_GROUP="root" \
 "
 
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