On 2026-05-22, Chris Lamb wrote: > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that > xpenguins could not be built reproducibly. > > This is because the manual package is generated with the current date. > I've attached a patch that seeds this date from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, if > available. ... > +--- xpenguins-3.2.4.orig/Makefile.am > ++++ xpenguins-3.2.4/Makefile.am > +@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ EXTRA_DIST = lay-out-frames.scm resize-f > + > + man_MANS = xpenguins.1 > + > ++BUILD_DATE = $(shell date --utc --date=@$(or $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH),$(shell > date +%s)) "+%B %Y") > ++ > + xpenguins.1: xpenguins.1.tmpl > +- sed > "s'SYSTEMTHEMES'$(datadir)/xpenguins/themes/*';s/VERSION/$(VERSION)/;s/DATE/`date > +'%B %Y'`/" < $< > $@ > ++ sed > "s'SYSTEMTHEMES'$(datadir)/xpenguins/themes/*';s/VERSION/$(VERSION)/;s/DATE/$(BUILD_DATE)/" > < $< > $@ > + > + tarfile = $(top_builddir)/xroachng-$(VERSION).tar.gz > +
Note that "date +'%B %Y'" is potentially locale sensitive: %B locale's full month name (e.g., January) It might be worth using +%F or +%Y-%m-%d instead. live well, vagrant
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