Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50116; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:34:51 +0000

 On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 06:30:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
  >  Reading src/gnu/dist/groff/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp I see that it's
  >  hardcoded that it'll always produce it.
  >  
  >  How about a postprocessing step that just does 'grep -v ^%%CreationDate:'?
 
 Will that break the file? I suppose probably not.
 
  >  >   > Then, find a similar solution for the time stamps inside the gzip(1)
  >  >   > headers of the .gz files.
  >  >  
  >  >  same...
  >  
  >  Well, that one's easy: choose one of the methods-to-be-decided-upon in
  >  PR 50119 and touch the file to that date _before_ gzippping it.
 
 an easier way that doesn't confuse make: gzip -n
 
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