----- Forwarded message from "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann(a)suse.de&gt; ----- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:41:16 +0100 From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann(a)suse.de&gt; To: rjones(a)redhat.com Subject: libguestfs patch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 Hi, here is a patch for making libguestfs build more reproducibly Ciao Bernhard M. Index: libguestfs-1.26.10/generator/docstrings.ml =================================================================== --- libguestfs-1.26.10.orig/generator/docstrings.ml +++ libguestfs-1.26.10/generator/docstrings.ml @@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ fact that they are deprecated indicates with correct use of these functions." prefix alt in Some txt -let copyright_years = - let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time ())).tm_year in - if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else "2009" +let copyright_years = "2009-2016" (* Generate a header block in a number of standard styles. *) type comment_style = ----- End forwarded message ----- I don't think I'd accept this as-is, but it would be OK if the final year (ie. 2016) was placed in configure.ac, and passed to the generator via a config.ml file. This is because it's good to have all the version / date stuff in one place, and that place is at the top of configure.ac. Sadly we don't yet have a generator/config.ml{,.in} file, but one could be easily created. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v