Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list writes: > We have code to make release tar archives reproducible:
Nice! We finally had an effort this year to make the Guix source tarball reproducible --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ba52975ea9 Revert "maint: Generate 'doc/version.texi' reproducibly." 2a622090fa Revert "maint: Generate 'doc/version-LANG.texi' reproducibly." 416f11f1d4 maint: Ensure generated file reproducibility for dist. 4099b12f9f maint: Avoid EPS generation to fail silently, ensure reproducibility. ecf0e22dcf maint: Use reproducible Git timestamp for POT-Creation-Date. 6c63c36677 maint: Use xgettext.scm wrapper to create .PO files reproducibly. b4d2838d51 maint: Generate 'doc/version-LANG.texi' reproducibly. b850d77e11 maint: Generate AUTHORS and ChangeLog reproducibly. ea23a124ad maint: Help help2man generate reproducible man-pages. 8fdc372841 maint: Generate 'doc/version.texi' reproducibly. b0c33b1997 maint: Use reproducible timestamps and name for tarball. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- but for Guix it's was more effort than for smaller packages... > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=top/GNUmakefile;hb=5b92dd0a45c8d27f13a21076b57095ea5e220870#l28 Guix is using https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/Makefile.am?id=b0c33b1997e4a02e048ceac445b156b3a1eed76d#n1006 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # Reproducible tarball override GZIP_ENV = --best --no-name # Be friendly to Debian; avoid using EPOCH override am__tar = $${TAR-tar} \ --format=ustar \ --sort=name \ --mode=go=rX,u+rw,a-s \ --mtime=@$$(cat "$$tardir"/.tarball-timestamp) \ --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner \ -cf - \ "$$tardir" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- with --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- gen-tarball-version: echo $(VERSION) > "$(distdir)/.tarball-version" echo $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) > $(distdir)/.tarball-timestamp --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- HELP2MANFLAGS = --source=GNU --info-page=$(PACKAGE_TARNAME) # help2man reproducibility SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH = $(shell git show HEAD --format=%ct --no-patch 2>/dev/null || echo 1) export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- To get po to generate reproducible required hacking an xgettext script. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/build-aux/xgettext.scm?id=6c63c366776643e5831c50a2b7e29bad93273327 Greetings, Janneke -- Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond https://LilyPond.org Freelance IT https://www.JoyOfSource.com | Avatar® https://AvatarAcademy.com
