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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 by default
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:44:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87letn2ut9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8ssry1i.fsf@contorta> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:03:37 -0700")

Hi Vagrant,

[...]

>> Perhaps to show our stand here we could patch our copy of pdftex with
>> 's/FORCE_SOURCE_DATE/SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH/', lest we end up with a grocery
>> list of *SOURCE_DATE* variable variants.
>
> Sure, with some technical details fixed up, as I think they are
> functionally different, in that FORCE_SOURCE_DATE is a boolean, and
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is an integer, though ... Guix sets
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1 ... so it might just work by dumb luck! Though There
> may be some rare packages that need SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to be some larger
> value...  "It can't possibly be 1970, this program was first written in
> 2002, there must be some error, failing build..."
>
> At any rate, if diverging from upstream Tex Live is how Guix wants to
> handle this, I'm all for it!

Seems we have a small consensus here (Ludo, you and myself); would you
like to give it a try?

Thanks,

Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-23 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-10 23:53 Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 by default Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-15  8:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-15 16:24   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-21 20:48   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-21 21:06     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-22  3:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-22  6:08   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-22 13:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-22 15:11       ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-22 17:41         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-22 13:59     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-23  1:03       ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-23 16:44         ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-07-03  1:58           ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-07-04 13:14             ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-12 15:32               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-22 15:16 ` Time namespace for build sandbox (was Re: Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 by default) Zhu Zihao
2022-06-22 15:35   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-06-22 16:41   ` Maxime Devos

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