File generated by `sync --experimental_repository_resolved_file` contains absolute paths
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Description
### Description of the problem / feature request:
resolved.bzl file generation is not hermetic as the produced file contains absolute paths to Bazel's output directory. See for instance https://github.com/fenollp/bazel_lock/blob/bc5f8edeb5523502552c2f11221e2b8b38e92c1a/example_http_archive_resolved/resolved.bzl#L92
Thus it is much more difficult than just having to review a diff of the file as is intended in https://blog.bazel.build/2018/07/09/bazel-sync-and-resolved-file.html
Especially so when there is more than one entity generating the file.
More on that link: the generated file is not pretty printed (it is missing trailing commas).
### Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
```
git clone https://github.com/fenollp/bazel_lock.git
cd bazel_lock/example_http_archive_resolved
bazel sync
git diff resolved.bzl
```
### What operating system are you running Bazel on?
Ubuntu 19.10
### What's the output of `bazel info release`?
release 2.2.0
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/6261 mentions non-reproducible file generation, since fixed.
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
It seems the absolute paths only appear in values of `definition_information`.
See some of these paths at https://github.com/fenollp/bazel_lock/blob/bc5f8edeb5523502552c2f11221e2b8b38e92c1a/example_http_archive_resolved/resolved.bzl#L92
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Research direction
Clone fenollp/bazel_lock, enter example_http_archive_resolved, run bazel sync, and inspect the diff of resolved.bzl. Focus on the generated definition_information values and the missing trailing commas; done means the resolved file contains no output-directory absolute paths and is pretty printed consistently.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100