Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 19. Oktober 2015, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I don't think that > > faketime is a lot special about this. Most of the time a simple > > "touch" and options like tar's --owner and --group are enough to > > achieve reproducibility. Personally, I have not seen faketime to be > > used a lot, but this is just a personal feeling. > > we don't use faketime *at all*, as it has been been proven to be problematic > / > breaking some / many builds.
As could be seen with mp4h. ;-) > so: we never build *with* faketime, we just build faketime as we build all > the > packages. The reason why I talked about faketime is this: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-wml/mp4h.git/tree/debian/rules#n42 So far it seemed the only way I get most of the issues with mp4h fixed. Now that I've added some SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support, I can maybe get rid of faketime and still get many of the issues fixed. Then again, in the upload from yesterday I didn't seem to catch all timestamps inside the documentation fixed. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
