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		malkia on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Towards Idempotent Rebuilds? bit obvious, but all it takes something that takes something that changes everytime to make it non-reproducible - like __DATE__ and __TIME__

zaphar on July 10, 2024 [–]

Nix solves this by forcing __DATE__ and __TIME__ to be a single immutable value in the sandbox for all builds. If you look in the store the file timestamps will be this value.

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