This repository contains a minimal reproducing example for a reproducibility bug of systemd-repart, where directories in the temporary tree will have an undeterministic atime/mtime (current time).
To reproduce:
touch -amt 197001010000 os-tree/somefile
./bug.shThis will invoke systemd-repart with the OS tree at os-tree, while hooking hook/mkfs.ext4 into the path to get an easy entrypoint for at-runtime inspection of the temporary directory created by systemd-repart.
It will show that the timestamps of os-tree/somefile are persistent when being copied into the image at /somedir/somefile, but the directory that needs to be created in the local tree (/somedir) has an undeterministic atime/mtime, even though systemd-repart is invoked with []SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH](https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/), which is a problem for reproducibility.
Most likely, this is due to the use of xopenat_lock_full with O_CREAT when populating the temporary local tree.