GNU bug report logs - #31602
libreoffice not reproducible

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 07:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 31602 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 31602 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31602: libreoffice not reproducible
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 19:21:40 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> These are actually all zip files.  The reason for the non-reproducibility is
> that something copies the contents from the source to a mktemp'ed directory
> without preserving timestamps.  Then this directory is zipped up.

Without *clearing* timestamps?

> So the zip file now contains non-constant timestamps.
>
> I think it's somewhere in postprocess, but I can't find it so far.

Perhaps we could add a phase that unpacks-resets-repacks these?  Or,
alternately, something like the Debian/R-B tool (I forgot the name) that
does that automatically.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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