make-initrd: create reproducible initrds

To achieve reproducible results, `cpio` archive members are added in
sorted order and inodes renumbered.

The `cpio-clean.pl` script is made obsolete by setting mtimes via
`touch` & using `cpio --reproducible`.  Suggested by @dezgeg in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21273#issuecomment-268116605.

Note that using `--reproducible` means that initial ramdisk creation now
requires at least `cpio` version 2.12 (released in 2015).

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
index 895160616b796..092ab4586b38f 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 # `contents = {object = ...; symlink = /init;}' is a typical
 # argument.
 
-{ stdenv, perl, perlArchiveCpio, cpio, contents, ubootChooser, compressor, prepend }:
+{ stdenv, perl, cpio, contents, ubootChooser, compressor, prepend }:
 
 let
-  inputsFun = ubootName : [perl cpio perlArchiveCpio ]
+  inputsFun = ubootName : [ perl cpio ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ubootName != null) [ (ubootChooser ubootName) ];
   makeUInitrdFun = ubootName : (ubootName != null);
 in
@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   objects = map (x: x.object) contents;
   symlinks = map (x: x.symlink) contents;
   suffices = map (x: if x ? suffix then x.suffix else "none") contents;
-  
+
   # For obtaining the closure of `contents'.
   exportReferencesGraph =
     map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x.symlink) x.object]) contents;
   pathsFromGraph = ./paths-from-graph.pl;
-  cpioClean = ./cpio-clean.pl;
 
   crossAttrs = {
     nativeBuildInputs = inputsFun stdenv.cross.platform.uboot;