Hi Bernhard, > func_echo '<HR>' > -func_echo 'Generated from <CODE>MODULES.html.sh</CODE> on '`LC_ALL=C date > +"%e %B %Y"`. > +func_echo 'Generated from <CODE>MODULES.html.sh</CODE>'. >
The date is important, so that readers of <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html> know whether it is up-to-date or not. However, you are right that picking the current date is inappropriate. If a distro does a checkout of gnulib and then keeps packaging it unmodified for one year, the date of the packaging is irrelevantl; it's the date of the last git commit that matters. 2020-03-22 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> MODULES.html.sh: Add support for reproducible builds. Reported by Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedem...@suse.de> in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-03/msg00024.html>. * MODULES.html.sh: Print the date of the last gnulib commit, not the current date. diff --git a/MODULES.html.sh b/MODULES.html.sh index 7eab5e5..b1638da 100755 --- a/MODULES.html.sh +++ b/MODULES.html.sh @@ -3695,7 +3695,9 @@ func_echo '<LI>A POT file and some PO files' func_end UL func_echo '<HR>' -func_echo 'Generated from <CODE>MODULES.html.sh</CODE> on '`LC_ALL=C date +"%e %B %Y"`. +git_checkout_date=`git log -n 1 --date=iso --format=fuller | sed -n -e 's/^CommitDate: //p'` +pretty_date=`LC_ALL=C date +"%e %B %Y" --date="$git_checkout_date"` +func_echo "Generated by <CODE>MODULES.html.sh</CODE> from a git checkout as of ${pretty_date}." func_end BODY
