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authorMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2019-03-19 19:01:48 -0400
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2019-03-19 22:36:37 -0400
commit8cf160e12253d65e9122d56cb602e0907e8c71bc (patch)
treef7f10a542bc6d69d36de34e6b8946111a9e90479 /gnu
parentd17b1c0891c2e1b2b1bfc92a120e91c1f8909c39 (diff)
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gnu: icecat: Improve computed 'icecat-source' tarball.
* gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat-source): When packing the new IceCat tarball, set the mtime of archived files to early 1980. Remove useless 'string-append' applied to one argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm b/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
index 785d5c1342..6992a7b1ca 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
@@ -722,11 +722,15 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
(string-append old-icecat-dir "/l10n")
(string-append old-icecat-dir "/debian"))
- (format #t (string-append "Packing new IceCat tarball...~%"))
+ (format #t "Packing new IceCat tarball...~%")
(force-output)
(invoke "tar" "cfa" #$output
- ;; avoid non-determinism in the archive
- "--mtime=@0"
+ ;; Avoid non-determinism in the archive. We set the
+ ;; mtime of files in the archive to early 1980 because
+ ;; the build process fails if the mtime of source
+ ;; files is pre-1980, due to the creation of zip
+ ;; archives.
+ "--mtime=@315619200" ; 1980-01-02 UTC
"--owner=root:0"
"--group=root:0"
"--sort=name"