[bug#70169] [PATCH 0/7] Reproducible `make dist' tarball in defiance of Autotools and Gettext

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hello!

> Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> I boldly pushed `origin/wip-tarball', you may try that :)
>
> Silly me. 🤦

Yeah, when you see it, it's obvious :)

> First try: I wasn’t running in a UTF-8 locale (in ‘guix shell -CP’) so I
> got things like this:
>
> │ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/AUTHORS
[..]
> │ │ -  2306     Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
> │ │ +  2306     Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

Ah, not good.

> Then there’s prolly a timezone issue with the generated ChangeLog:
>
> │ │ -2024-02-19  Troy Figiel  <troy@troyfigiel.com>
> │ │ +2024-02-20  Troy Figiel  <troy@troyfigiel.com>
> │ │  
> │ │     gnu: Add go-github-com-coocood-freecache.
> │ │     * gnu/packages/golang-xyz.scm (go-github-com-coocood-freecache): New variable.

Yes!

> The best thing to do is probably to drop ‘ChangeLog’ generation (maybe
> ‘AUTHORS’ too) and just add a text inviting users to check the Git log.

I think AUTHORS and ChangeLog are amongst the simplest of our worries.
Setting TZ=UTC0 and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 should address these.

> Then I must have stale ‘help2man’ byproducts:
>
> │ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/doc/guix-challenge.1
> │ │ @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
> │ │  .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.49.2.
> │ │  .TH GUIX "1" "April 2024" "GNU" "User Commands"
> │ │  .SH NAME
> │ │ -guix \- manual page for guix challenge (GNU Guix) 1.3.0.51884-370f8f3
> │ │ +guix \- manual page for guix challenge (GNU Guix) 1.3.0.57425-80a228

That looks like a dependency or parallelism problem.  I made the
auto-clean dependency more strict and clean even more Autotools caching.

> Lots of differences in Info files:
> │ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/doc/guix-cookbook.fr.info
> │ │┄ xxd not available in path. Falling back to Python hexlify.
> │ │ @@ -1,6 +1,8216 @@

Yeah, there's also something with the (building of) the cookbooks.  I'm
hoping the strict auto-clean dependency fixes this too.

> Something with PO files not being regenerated (?):
>
> │ ├── guix-1.3.0.57425-80a228/po/packages/en@boldquot.po
> │ │ @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
> │ │  # English translations for guix package.
> │ │ -# Copyright (C) 2020 the authors of Guix (msgids)
> │ │ +# Copyright (C) 2024 the authors of Guix (msgids)

Hmm.  I've added a naive xgettext.scm wrapper to take care of this.

> Note that in ‘guix shell -CP’ I had no TZ and LC_* variable set and
> /etc/timezone is missing.

Okay, thanks for the hint.  "Of course", you'll have to use something
like

    guix shell -CP -m manifest.scm fontconfig font-ghostscript \
        graphviz imagemagick texlive-bin

to make it succeed now.  When running in a container from a worktree
you'll also have to expose the master .git directory.

I fixed some image generation rules that would silently fail without
graphviz or imagemagic, or when fonts cannot be found.

> That’s it for today!

Thanks, find a V2 soon.

Greetings,
Janneke

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