From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: Zipped Python .egg-files Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:12:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8evof9p.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boGj2-0000aq-Vp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 17:12:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boGiz-00030D-Si for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 17:12:41 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:48345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boGix-0002vS-Hs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 17:12:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel , Guix-devel Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > I just packaged a Python package and found was generating a zipped > .egg-file - which is not that bad, since this saved space. > > But: This zip-file does include recent time-stamps. > > I assume this is wrong, isn't it? Can somebody more skilled than me > please implement something like "strip-jar-timestamps" > (ant-build-system) for .egg-files?! Thanks. Or should I file a > bug-report for this? There is a related bug for this: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20765 You can search for that URL in python.scm to find workarounds. I find myself adding the "--single-version-externally-managed" flag more often than not and am willing to try changing python-build-system to use pip, as discussed in that bug. But won't have time until a few weeks from now, at least. Thanks, Marius