Re: Unable to build "Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge" paper

[Suhail]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Sadly, it is a known issue:
>
> ...
>      
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine

Thank you for the reference; much appreciated!

> For an immediate fix, you can do something along these lines:
>
>         sudo timedatectl set-ntp false
>         sudo timedatectl set-time '2020-06-23 00:00:00'

Thank you; that resolved the issue.

> For a long-term fix, I have done a systematic review about what
> happens in the worst case scenario:
>
>     https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2023-06-23-hackathon-repro.html

That was an insightful read. Are there related discussions/plans to
better address some of the issues you point out in the post (over and
above those that are linked from the post)?

-- 
Suhail

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