FS#69123 - [groff][man-db] Reproducible build fails in some timezones
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Opened by Fergus Dall (sidereal) - Sunday, 27 December 2020, 06:34 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 24 June 2021, 05:11 GMT
Opened by Fergus Dall (sidereal) - Sunday, 27 December 2020, 06:34 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 24 June 2021, 05:11 GMT
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Description: Building the man-db package involves running
groff to generate the man-db manual, which contains the
current date. Groff attempts to respect the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH env variable to enable reproducible
builds, but it still checks the real timezone to convert the
Unix timestamp into a date. If the timezone is different
from the timezone the package was originally built in, this
can output a different date, resulting in differences in the
built package.
Steps to reproduce: 1) Install package "archlinux-repro" via pacman 2) Download man-db-2.9.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst from an archive or mirror 3) Set local timezone to UTC+5 or higher e.g. by doing "timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Sydney" 4) Run "repro /path/to/downloaded/man-db-2.9.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" 5) (Optional) Run "diffoscope ./build/man-db-2.9.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /path/to/downloaded/man-db-2.9.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" to see differences |
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Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) -
Monday, 21 June 2021, 19:50 GMT
Please try groff-1.22.4-6 from testing repo.