GNU bug report logs - #44257
guix boot stop

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: "44257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <44257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org,
 Douglas Linford <drkrider <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#44257: guix boot stop
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:00:53 -0400

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Well, since this is the Internet...
> 
> Leo Famulari 写道：
> > The timestamps are reset to "zero" (the first date possible on Unix
> > systems) as part of Guix's efforts to build everything reproducibly.
> 
> The manual does claim as much (in (guix)Binary Installation) but it's never
> been true:
> 
>  $ stat -c %Y /gnu/store/arbitrary.file
>  1

Right, I meant "zero", not 0. As you point out, it's not practical to
actually set the timestamps to zero seconds.

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