>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>
>>>>> on Sun, 11 Jan 2015 18:34:10 -0600 writes:
> On 11 January 2015 at 17:49, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |
> | On 27 December 2014 at 15:29, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | |
> | | Hi Martin,
> | |
> | | On 27 December 2014 at 22:12, Martin Maechler wrote:
> | | | Dear Dirk,
> | | |
> | | | is this about R itself, or rather (I think) about building
"external"
> | | | (e.g. CRAN) R packages?
> | | | Martin
> | |
> | | As I understand (and the full text is still below) Jeremy is
concerned about
> | | R packages (ie r-cran-*) created by R showing "who built it when".
> | |
> | | Which would make simple bit by bit comparison / replication
impossible.
> |
> | I got some time to work on this today.
> |
> | Earlier discussion about this is at http://bugs.debian.org/774031
> |
> | The issue (for Debian) is that bit-by-bit comparison for
reproducibility is
> | made impossible by the timestamps added at build-time by R.
> |
> | Jeremy, the bug report submitter, confused Packaged: (created when an R
> | package authors finalizes his tarball before submitting to CRAN) and
Built:
> | (added at INSTALL time), but submitted a first simple patch removing
these
> | timestamps. I don't like the R in Debian to be different from the
general
> | one, so I hoping you can see merit in the two simple patches below.
> |
> | They do the following:
> |
> | - accept a new option to INSTALL in src/library/tools/install.r and
passing
> | the value of that option to .install_package_description() in the
sibbling
> | file admin.R
> |
> | - also accept a new env var to MAKE at R-base compile time to pass that
to
> | the mkdesc target in share/make/basepkg.mk for the base packages.
> |
> | Please let me know if you want me to expand on this, or add more tests.
> |
> | The two patches are attached, and were made against R-devel's SVN
revision
> | r67410 from yesterday.
> Resending. The earlier post has an unforunate M-x untabify before the
second
> diff was created.
Thank you, Dirk!
I've committed these now to R-devel, svn rev r67422 and r67423.
(R devel should become R 3.2.0 in April)
Martin
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