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#24 Qt6 packages record the host kernel version
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Rebuilding 20+ Qt6 packages revealed that every module creates a json file which records the build host kernel version making them not reproducible.

│ ├── usr/lib/qt6/modules/Quick3DPhysics.json
│ │ ├── Pretty-printed
│ │ │ @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@
│ │ │              "name": "Linux",
│ │ │              "targets": [
│ │ │                  {
│ │ │                      "abi": "x86_64-little_endian-lp64",
│ │ │                      "architecture": "x86_64"
│ │ │                  }
│ │ │              ],
│ │ │ -            "version": "6.13.6-arch1-1"
│ │ │ +            "version": "6.13.7-arch1-1"

Example packages qt6-qttools-examples, qt6-qtbase-ibase, etc.

The issue of recording the host kernel is tracked in qt's bugtracker

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue tagged with: irreproducibility

From a NixOS contributor I have heard we could set CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION to an empty string that resolved most of their qt6 module issues except for these leftovers.
Edited by jelly

→ https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qt6/pull-request/7
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