The mtime on a man page is the build time. As gzip stores the mtime and original name in the compressed file by default, this makes compressed man pages unreproducible. Neither of these are important metadata in this case, so turn this off. Reported-by: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index b6a6a2e..11a4145 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML) MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS)) mandocs: $(MAN) - find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f + find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -nf installmandocs: mandocs mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/ -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.
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