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bug#38162: icedtea "jar" tool could automatically pack reproducible jars
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#38162: icedtea "jar" tool could automatically pack reproducible jars |
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Date: |
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:59:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
> it would be better if icedtea's "jar" tool automatically packed reproducible
> jar
> files instead of us doing some barely safe
> unzip-then-rezip-with-specific-order
> in the ant-build-system.
>
> It could check the environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and then use that as
> timestamp for the zip entries.
Someone proposed patches several months ago to reset timestamps in
jar/zip files, which I reviewed, but then lost track of (which may well
be my fault!) and I can’t find them on guix-patches now.
If you don’t mind researching a bit :-), this could be helpful.
Ludo’.