Subject: r-minimal is not reproducible

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:02:08 +0200

R has a bizzare reproducibility problem:

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diffoscope /gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0/lib/R/library/methods/Meta/package.rds /gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0-check/lib/R/library/methods/Meta/package.rds
--- /gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0/lib/R/library/methods/Meta/package.rds
+++ /gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0-check/lib/R/library/methods/Meta/package.rds
├── package.rds-content
│ @@ -16,17 +16,17 @@
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│  000001c0: 0000 0009 636f 6465 746f 6f6c 7300 0400  ....codetools...
│  000001d0: 0900 0000 0379 6573 0004 0009 0000 0033  .....yes.......3
│  000001e0: 5220 332e 362e 303b 2078 3836 5f36 342d  R 3.6.0; x86_64-
│  000001f0: 756e 6b6e 6f77 6e2d 6c69 6e75 782d 676e  unknown-linux-gn
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Ricardo