Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread John Soo
Good to have you! A mention and description of purely functional package management ideas I think would be very welcome in the documentation. Good luck, John

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread Martin Michel
Tobias, John, thank you for this explanation! My first thought was… oh, something broke during my installation. But I was only spoiled by not resetting my mind from the usual suspicious package managers. Next time I will think more about the nature of using a purely functional system, of

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread John Soo
Hello and welcome Martin! The Unix time stamp is set to 0 for one thing to ensure reproducible builds. If two build artifacts suffered in time stamps, they would be considered different. Hope you find guix helpful and hackable, John

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread John Soo
Oops s/suffered/differed

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Martin, Martin Michel 写道: So far so good, but I could not figure out what is wrong with the file system entries of /gnu/store. All entries there have a timestamp of UNIX epoch 0. Well spotted! This is intentional. The Guix daemon[0] changes all timestamps of all files added to the store

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread Wiktor Żelazny
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 05:53:55PM +0200, Martin Michel wrote: > All entries there have a timestamp of UNIX epoch 0. Hello, To my knowledge, this is intentional, and related to software reproducibility. Why do you find it problematic? WŻ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

2020-10-21 Thread Martin Michel
Hi, I have install Guix on a Virtualbox VM in order to test if Guix could become my future GNU/Linux distribution of choice. The installation went smoothly and I am learning the differences to Debian, my previous companion for many years, step-by-step. So far so good, but I could not figure