On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:32:48PM -0400, Troy Sankey wrote:
> Builds don't seem to be deterministic when I use --check.  Not sure where to
> start looking in order to fix that.

I use the diffoscope program to inspect the differences.

Currently, all of our Python 3 packages embed timestamps in the Python
bytecode [0], and our Sphinx also embeds timestamps in man pages [1].
So, you should at least see these differences.

[0]
https://bugs.gnu.org/22533

[1] I am trying to update the whole set of core Python packages on the
wip-python branch. This will fix the Sphinx problem. I took a little
time off from this, but I'm going to dive back in soon. Feel free to
jump in!

> From 2538d47347ea2ca04eb116e762e3bf4dec575d31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Troy Sankey <sankeytms@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 13:38:20 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add python-freezegun.
> 
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-freezegun): New variable.
> (python2-freezegun): New variable.
 
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: python-icalendar: Update to 3.10.
> 
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-icalendar): Update to 3.10.

> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: khal: Update to 0.8.3.
> 
> * gnu/packages/calendar.scm (khal): Update to 0.8.3.

Thanks, pushed as bc8273d0c!