Bug #13628: rdoc json.gz files differ across builds

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.6p396 (2016-11-15 revision 56800) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
• Backport: 2.3: DONTNEED, 2.4: DONTNEED, 2.5: DONTNEED

[bmwiedemann (Bernhard M. Wiedemann)]

lib/rdoc/generator/json_index.rb inserts the build time
into generated .gz files,
so they differ across each build,
making it hard for distributions like openSUSE's
to create bit-identical binary packages when those are using rdoc.

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ why that matters

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)

[emaste (Ed Maste)]

We came up with the same patch for FreeBSD while working on reproducible builds there.

[aycabta (aycabta .)]

I reviewed this at upstream:
https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/569

@bmwiedemann (Bernhard M. Wiedemann) Please check the upstream issue.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• Backport changed from 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN to 2.3: DONTNEED, 2.4: DONTNEED, 2.5: DONTNEED