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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2009-06-13T16·30+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2009-06-13T16·30+0000 |
| commit | 14bc3ce3d6d5745717fa19b8b43b5fdd117ff757 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b9cc8b99864046e037ac9e5dacf106980a789b0 /doc | |
| parent | f24cf5d303dac3e82068f80091d2f312455ba8cf (diff) | |
* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml index aca5c7c6ca..1151b0f33a 100644 --- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml +++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml @@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ command-line argument. See <xref linkend='sec-standard-environment' inputs.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>After the build, Nix sets the last-modified - timestamp on all files in the build result to 0 (00:00:00 1/1/1970 + timestamp on all files in the build result to 1 (00:00:01 1/1/1970 UTC), sets the group to the default group, and sets the mode of the file to 0444 or 0555 (i.e., read-only, with execute permission enabled if the file was originally executable). Note that possible |