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gnutls 3.6.12 fails to build: FAIL: status-request-revoked

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44559 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Subject: Re: bug#44559: gnutls 3.6.12 fails to build: FAIL:
 status-request-revoked
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:05:43 +0100

Hi,

Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> 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?

How would it fake it though?

There are time_namespaces(7), but it’s only for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME.

LD_PRELOAD like ‘datefudge’ does is probably not a viable option.

Ludo’.

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