On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:11:21AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> The problem is described in > >> <git://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git>: > >> > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > >> timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_podman: > >> description: | > >> The module Pod::Man includes timestamps in its embedded manpages: > >> > >> http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/latest/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm/?hl=1700#L977 > >> They should be based on the mtime of the original file. > >> url: > >> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInManpagesGeneratedByPodMan > > > > According to the information on this page, we should set POD_MAN_DATE > > while building. Should we make the perl-build-system export this > > variable? Set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH? > > Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Should I add a phase to %standard-phases in perl-build-system.scm [0]? Should I define a new procedure set-POD_MAN_DATE [1] and add that perl-build-system.scm's %standard-phases? [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/perl-build-system.scm#n71 [1] As in... http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm#n42
