GNU bug report logs - #44559
gnutls 3.6.12 fails to build: FAIL: status-request-revoked

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:50:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 44559 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44559: gnutls 3.6.12 fails to build: FAIL: status-request-revoked
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:18:16 +0100

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The question for us becomes how to ensure long-term reproducibility in
> the presence of such bugs.
>
> In this case, I think the only solution would be to change the system
> clock when one rebuilds GnuTLS (or to use ‘--without-tests=gnutls’, but
> you end up with different derivations, which is not necessarily
> desirable).
>
> Thoughts?

There is a related bug report here:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39310

Perhaps we could make a "--with-system-clock" option for 'guix build'
that instructs the daemon to fake the system time?

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