Bug 924021

Summary:	Store build logs in binpkgs
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Esteve Varela Colominas <esteve.varela>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	Adrian.Bassett, vidra.jonas
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Esteve Varela Colominas 2024-02-07 19:23:07 UTC

I think it'd be nice to have an option to store build logs either inside binpkgs, or otherwise have an easy option to retrieve the build log from a binrepo, such that they're always available.

The purpose would be to figure out any quirks about the building environment that aren't recorded in the metadata directly: What compiler version did it use and what warnings were raised during build, what did the configure script decide to do based on what packages were installed, etc etc. It gives a bit more transparency over what happened at the server.

It's not machine readable like for example .buildinfo files[1], but it's also easy to forget details in such a formal specification. Even if something like that were to be introduced I feel like build logs would still be useful.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/BuildinfoFiles