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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#38162: icedtea "jar" tool could automatically pack reproducible
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:59:13 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> it would be better if icedtea's "jar" tool automatically packed reproduci=
ble jar
> files instead of us doing some barely safe unzip-then-rezip-with-specific=
-order
> in the ant-build-system.
>
> It could check the environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and then use th=
at as
> timestamp for the zip entries.

Someone proposed patches several months ago to reset timestamps in
jar/zip files, which I reviewed, but then lost track of (which may well
be my fault!) and I can=E2=80=99t find them on guix-patches now.

If you don=E2=80=99t mind researching a bit :-), this could be helpful.

Ludo=E2=80=99.