Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH v2 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 01:09:52 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on > the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of > the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by >

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:32:50 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I guess I have to ask, though: doesn't it seem that having the docs > > produced according to the current locale is the Right Thing to do? Users > > have their locale set as it is for a reason, it seems like the

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:49:19 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on > the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of > the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by >

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH] DocBook: Fix non-determinstic installation of duplicate man pages

2015-08-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:36:52 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Some kernel-doc sections are included in multiple DocBook files. This means the mandocs target will generate the same manual page multiple times with different metadata (author name/address and manual title, taken

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 0/5] Reproducible document builds

2015-07-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:03:25 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: As part of the reproducible builds project, Jérémy Bobbio identified several time-dependent and non-deterministic functions in the document build process (htmldocs, mandocs targets). This patch series should fix all