bug#44559: gnutls 3.6.12 fails to build: FAIL: status-request-revoked

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I lost track of the details -- is this problem still likely to bite us
>> in the future, or was something committed to mitigate against it?
>
> “Time bombs” are the worst of non-reproducibility bugs because (1) we
> don’t have workarounds other than changing the system time on the
> machine that performs the build, and (2) we currently lack a way to
> detect them.

I see.  Thanks for explaining!

> In this thread, Chris and I proposed addressing #2 by offering ways to
> automatically or manually run builds “in the future”¹.  We could actually
> similarly address #1 by running builds “in the past”.
>
> In any case, the first step is probably to offer a VM service for Guix
> System, similar to childhurd, with an option to specify the starting
> time.
>
> So we’re not done yet, but the discussion has drifted beyond the
> original GnuTLS bug report, so perhaps we can close it and take it
> elsewhere?

I think so!  Few seems to visit these years old reports.  If there's
something to brainstorm about, I'd rather see it happen in a new thread
on guix-devel.

Thanks for the reply!

Closing.

Maxim