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Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by mikepurvis on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:34PM (#43486128)
Nix sets everything to the epoch, although I believe Debian's approach is to just use the date of the newest file in the dsc tarballs.
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Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:28PM (#43488193)
Nix can also set it to things other than 0; I think my favorite is to set it by the time of the commit from which you're building.
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Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by terinjokes on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:27AM (#43492466)
Which is also used when the contents of a derivation will be included in a zip file. The Unix epoch is about a decade older than the zip epoch.
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Re:Debian bookworm live images now reproducible by lamby on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:56AM (#43492243)
Debian's approach is actually to use the date specified in the top entry in the debian/changelog file. That's more transparent and resilient than any mtime.
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