Hi Ian,
On 8/6/26 20:27, Ian Eure wrote:
Hi Hugo,
Hugo Buddelmeijer via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <[email protected]> writes:
Can we mock the date/time when we run the guix build process?
The cumbersome parts are:
- They must spawn the program the time is adjusted for, ex: `faketime
make check'. Which means you have to mess with the build-system’s
phases to make it work.
Thanks; good to know that there are some standardized ways around these
time traps on the package level.
(For astropy we just disabled the downloading of new data.)
> - faketime doesn’t work on 32-bit systems, so packages must choose
> either faketime or datefudge, depending on the build target.
Annoying, but how awesome is it that we can do these selections in
scheme? Instead of in bash or yaml! ❤️ Guix!
Better support for this within the package definition itself would be
most welcome.
Yeah I was thinking that too. Specify a date/time and have the package
be build 'at' that time. Maybe even have a default 'guix epoch'.
