Notes for smlnj - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 110.79-1
Identified issues:
Identifier: user_hostname_manually_added_requiring_further_investigation
Description Packages which intentionally capture the username or hostname into a custom format,
but aren't obviously using any tool or system which has this as a core issue.
Interesting because they could be fixed by fixing these things at build time.
Identifier: timestamps_in_ps_generated_by_dvips
Description eg. %%CreationDate (or DVIPSSource?) in header
.
https://sources.debian.net/src/texlive-bin/latest/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftex.web/#L14449
.
DVIPSSource date Can be set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH by setting FORCE_SOURCE_DATE to 1.
Identifier: random_order_in_static_libraries
Description order of members in a static library change between build1 and build2
 

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