bug#30097: [core-updates] nspr 4.17 not reproducible

[Gábor Boskovits]

2018-01-14 20:51 GMT+01:00 Marius Bakke <address@hidden>:

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:

> 2018-01-14 19:28 GMT+01:00 Marius Bakke <address@hidden>:
>
>> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > nspr 4.17 is not reproducible.
>> > Diffoscope output attached.
>>
>> Thanks for the report!
>>
>> The attached patch should solve it.  Since there are quite a few
>> dependent packages, I'd like to push this to a new 'staging' branch that
>> will be started shortly after the core-updates merge.  WDYT?
>>
>> Yes, it should go to a branch.
>
> I also don't know if this fixes the difference also, where an additional ;
> is present...
> Could you check this, or should I run a test with the patch?
> It seems like a 2 byte difference.

It passes `guix build --rounds=2`, so I'm not sure what was up with that ";".

Most probably it is some kind of checksum which includes the timestamp.

If it passes "guix build --rounds=2" it should be fine.

Thanks for the clarification.