Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 13:26, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many of the modular texlive packages have reproducibility issues. > > Take texlive-cm for example. METAFONT writes a timestamp into > every generated font file > (e.g. > /gnu/store/lkmiyfzi1bq571yn4gypbcs5vn4fpma7-texlive-cm-51265/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmvtt10.600gf). > It also generates log files that contain timestamped lines like > these: > > │ │ │ │ │ │ ├── +++ > /gnu/store/lkmiyfzi1bq571yn4gypbcs5vn4fpma7-texlive-cm-51265/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmu10.log [..] > Perhaps we could just delete this log file. Yeah, maybe this file could be removed -- if this log file follows a pattern for the various TeXlive packages. For instance, these… > /gnu/store/2x6jddfgfg5rp342wsrsl5gssz2lkd06-texlive-union-51265/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/: > │ │ │ │ - 15890 2021-09-16 11:24:07 builtin35.map > │ │ │ │ - 21363 2021-09-16 11:24:07 download35.map > │ │ │ │ - 21470 2021-09-16 11:24:07 psfonts_pk.map > │ │ │ │ - 21674 2021-09-16 11:24:07 psfonts_t1.map > │ │ │ │ - 21669 2021-09-16 11:24:07 ps2pk.map > │ │ │ │ - 14 2021-09-16 11:24:07 psfonts.map -> > psfonts_t1.map > │ │ │ │ + 15890 2021-09-16 11:24:06 builtin35.map > │ │ │ │ + 21363 2021-09-16 11:24:06 download35.map > │ │ │ │ + 21470 2021-09-16 11:24:06 psfonts_pk.map > │ │ │ │ + 21674 2021-09-16 11:24:06 psfonts_t1.map > │ │ │ │ + 21669 2021-09-16 11:24:06 ps2pk.map > │ │ │ │ + 14 2021-09-16 11:24:06 psfonts.map -> > psfonts_t1.map > │ │ │ │ > /gnu/store/2x6jddfgfg5rp342wsrsl5gssz2lkd06-texlive-union-51265/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/: > │ │ │ │ - 21676 2021-09-16 11:24:07 pdftex_dl14.map > │ │ │ │ - 20011 2021-09-16 11:24:07 pdftex_ndl14.map > │ │ │ │ - 15 2021-09-16 11:24:07 pdftex.map -> > pdftex_dl14.map > │ │ │ │ + 21676 2021-09-16 11:24:06 pdftex_dl14.map > │ │ │ │ + 20011 2021-09-16 11:24:06 pdftex_ndl14.map > │ │ │ │ + 15 2021-09-16 11:24:06 pdftex.map -> > pdftex_dl14.map > │ │ │ │ > /gnu/store/2x6jddfgfg5rp342wsrsl5gssz2lkd06-texlive-union-51265/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap/: > │ │ │ │ - 413 2021-09-16 11:24:07 kanjix.map > │ │ │ │ + 413 2021-09-16 11:24:06 kanjix.map …seem annoying. Is it possible to set the date at Big Bang, i.e., 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC? Cheers, simon
