Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-11-22 Thread Dénes Tóth
Maybe a further thing to consider is to introduce an environment variable by which one can avoid `add_build_stamp_to_description_file()` and any other calls altogether which affect bitwise reproducibility during the build process. If two users build the same package on exactly the same

Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-11-22 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Another thing to consider if one wants to anonymize the build is the UID/GID of the files in the tarball. So there might be a need for a R_BUILD_UID and R_BUILD_GID, e.g. by setting those to 32767 ("nobody"). /Henrik On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:25 AM Will L wrote: > > Thanks, Kurt. > > I think I

Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-01-25 Thread Will L
Thanks, Kurt. I think I now have enough time to write a patch. What are the steps? I have read https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html#how-to-submit-patches but I do not seem to have permission to create a Bugzilla account at https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/. Will On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 2:46

Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2018-11-11 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Will L writes: > To R-devel, > In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the > DESCRIPTION file, e.g. > Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; > This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must > not divulge our user IDs in the packages

[Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2018-11-11 Thread Will L
To R-devel, In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the DESCRIPTION file, e.g. Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must not divulge our user IDs in the packages we develop and release. Jim