control: tag -1 + pending On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:42:02PM +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > The PDF documentation is varying in the /ID field (but not the > Creation/Modification > time fields). After some debugging I found out that dblatex (which generates > the tex file that is used to build the pdf), is building the documentation > in a random directory. > Since our pdflatex honours SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, the Creation/Modification times > did not differ. But the absolute source file path (which is random) is also > part of the /ID calculation.
PDF are too complex :|
> The attached patch fixes the unreproducibility by telling dblatex to build in
> a deterministic path.
\o/
Thanks very much, already committed :)
> - dblatex $<
> + dblatex --tmpdir=docbuild $<
I'm curious, though, where did you find this --tmpdir? The manpages I
read lack this option...
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