From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable deterministic perl archives. Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:19:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87r35zp2oz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eg22nkvo.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAPml-0000LA-Mh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:20:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cAPmg-0005rP-Vs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:20:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87eg22nkvo.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Marius Bakke's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:53:15 +0100") 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: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Marius Bakke skribis: > Hi Guix, > > This patch disables installation of "perllocal.pod" files which records > build time and not much else in perl packages. > > I haven't checked whether this is needed for packages using 'Build.PL', > if you know any such package let me know. Are these perllocal.pod files really useless? In Debian this problem is filed as . Apparently upstream ended up using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/pull/279 Should we do that instead? Or are perllocal.pod pointless anyway? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.