On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 03:48:56PM +1300, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Dominic, > > > Could you clarify how this showed up as an issue as part of the > > reproducible builds work? > > Not sure how I can add beyond the original bug report alas :) However, > what I was seeing was that ExtUtils::Command::MM was generating > "perllocal.pod" files that contained the current time of day, > hence the patch.
I suppose my question was whether you saw this in the context of a package build (which would be odd, but I'm sure there are cases where it happens) or at some other time (in which case, is there still a justification for working towards reproducibility)? I appreciate this was a long time ago so you may not have the information, and I should have asked this at the time. perllocal.pod generation is already disabled for vendor installs so either there is a bug in that or you saw the generation happening elsewhere. https://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.1-1/debian/patches/debian/no_packlist_perllocal.diff/ > > A reproducible build should just disable perllocal generation > > > > — https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/pull/279 > > I'm afraid I just don't know -- am not deep enough into Perl packaging > to know the impact of this. > > Let me comment on there actually... Thanks! Dominic.
