Hello, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > >> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> This was discovered building texlive-luatex twice (--rounds=2 -K); >>> diffoscope shows that: >>> >> >> [...] >> >>> These are apparently time stamps as well as UUIDs. Debian [0, 1] and >>> NixOS [1] have patched some of them using faketime and substitute [0]. >>> >>> We should follow suite. >>> >>> [0] >>> https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/examples/hooks/reproducible/2006-reproducible-texlive-binaries-fmt-files.hook.chroot >>> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/227873 >> >> This is difficult to follow, because Debian and NixOS do not seem to >> apply the same fixes. For example, the former wraps "faketime" around >> "tex -ini tex.ini" call whereas the latter wraps it around >> "fmtutil-sys --all" call. >> >> By the way, how do you call "faketime" from (guix build-system texlive)? >> It is not possible to use (gnu packages check) module from there, isn't >> it? > > You'd have to add it to the implicit inputs defined for the build > system. > >> Note that Guix never runs "mtxrun --generate", so I don't think UUIDs >> are a problem in our case. > > OK. I'm afraid don't have more insights than what I had shared already > :-). Modular TeX Live is expected to be reproducible on "tex-team" branch. Monolithic TeX Live can be fixed directly on master branch. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
