guix: Zip file non-determinism when building in WSL #32931

issue achow101 opened this issue on July 10, 2025

achow101 commented at 6:53 AM on July 10, 2025: member

In debugging #32923, I found that while it is possible to do a guix build in WSL on a aarch64 machine, the resulting zip files did not match the build on x86_64. The binaries within the zip files matched, and it appears the non-determinism comes from zip including the file permissions. This is presumably because the WSL build occurs on a NTFS drive which handles file permissions differently from other unix file systems.

Diffoscope output:

--- x86_64-zipinfo	2025-07-09 23:52:39.650231781 -0700
+++ aarch64-zipinfo	2025-07-09 23:52:45.010145329 -0700
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
-Archive:  ../../../guix-build-ea5d2bb98598/output/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598-win64-unsigned.zip
+Archive:  bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598-win64-unsigned.zip
 Zip file size: 45922845 bytes, number of entries: 24
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx  2235411 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-cli.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx 40257059 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-qt.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx  4107283 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-tx.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx  1935891 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-util.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx  8202259 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-wallet.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx  1216019 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx 14261779 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoind.exe
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx 25802259 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/test_bitcoin.exe
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      126 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bitcoin.conf
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      846 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/readme.txt
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      214 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-cli.1
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      211 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-qt.1
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      211 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-tx.1
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      217 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-util.1
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      223 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-wallet.1
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      205 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoind.1
-drwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/
--rw-r--r--  3.0 unx      453 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/README.md
--rwxr-xr-x  3.0 unx     1764 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/rpcauth.py
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx  2235411 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-cli.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx 40257059 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-qt.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx  4107283 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-tx.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx  1935891 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-util.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx  8202259 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin-wallet.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx  1216019 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoin.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx 14261779 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/bitcoind.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx 25802259 b- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bin/test_bitcoin.exe
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      126 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/bitcoin.conf
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      846 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/readme.txt
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      214 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-cli.1
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      211 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-qt.1
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      211 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-tx.1
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      217 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-util.1
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      223 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoin-wallet.1
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      205 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/man/man1/bitcoind.1
+drwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx        0 b- stor 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx      453 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/README.md
+-rwxrwxrwx  3.0 unx     1764 t- defN 25-Jul-10 05:44 bitcoin-ea5d2bb98598/share/rpcauth/rpcauth.py

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achow101 commented at 9:18 PM on July 10, 2025: member

Switching to a non-ntfs drive works I guess. But it would be preferable if the build was filesystem agnostic.
Sjors commented at 5:10 PM on July 22, 2025: member

Maybe copy the build over and then zip it?
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