From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 23776@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:50:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160617185017.GA16420@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fdoxmja.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:11:21AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> The problem is described in <git://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git>:
> >>
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_podman:
> >> description: |
> >> The module Pod::Man includes timestamps in its embedded manpages:
> >> http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/latest/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm/?hl=1700#L977
> >> They should be based on the mtime of the original file.
> >> url: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInManpagesGeneratedByPodMan
> >
> > According to the information on this page, we should set POD_MAN_DATE
> > while building. Should we make the perl-build-system export this
> > variable? Set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?
>
> Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Should I add a phase to %standard-phases in perl-build-system.scm [0]?
Should I define a new procedure set-POD_MAN_DATE [1] and add that
perl-build-system.scm's %standard-phases?
[0]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/perl-build-system.scm#n71
[1] As in...
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm#n42
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-17 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 11:33 bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-16 15:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-17 8:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-17 18:50 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-18 20:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-19 17:31 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-25 18:23 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-30 9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-12 17:24 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-13 8:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-31 15:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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