[OE-core] [PATCH 4/6] mc: Fix manpage date indeterminism

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Feb 5 12:11:49 UTC 2020


The man page date can vary depending upon the host perl, e.g. in Russian
some versions print 'июня', others 'Июнь' or Polish 'czerwca' or 'czerwiec'.
Rather than depend upon perl-native to fix this, just remove the date from
the manpages.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 .../recipes-extended/mc/files/nomandate.patch | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.23.bb         |  1 +
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/mc/files/nomandate.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/files/nomandate.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/files/nomandate.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..48bd73b1102
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/files/nomandate.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+The man page date can vary depending upon the host perl, e.g. in Russian
+some versions print 'июня', others 'Июнь' or Polish 'czerwca' or 'czerwiec'.
+Rather than depend upon perl-native to fix this, just remove the date from 
+the manpages.
+
+RP 2020/2/4
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE specficic reproducibility workaround]
+Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
+
+Index: mc-4.8.23/doc/man/date-of-man-include.am
+===================================================================
+--- mc-4.8.23.orig/doc/man/date-of-man-include.am
++++ mc-4.8.23/doc/man/date-of-man-include.am
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ SED_PARAMETERS = \
+-	-e "s/%DATE_OF_MAN_PAGE%/$${MAN_DATE}/g" \
++	-e "s/%DATE_OF_MAN_PAGE%//g" \
+ 	-e "s/%DISTR_VERSION%/@DISTR_VERSION@/g" \
+ 	-e "s{%prefix%{@prefix@{g" \
+ 	-e "s{%sysconfdir%{@sysconfdir@{g" \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.23.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.23.bb
index d8c8f8643e1..ead348b92e7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.23.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.23.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
            file://0001-mc-replace-perl-w-with-use-warnings.patch \
            file://0001-Add-option-to-control-configure-args.patch \
            file://0001-Ticket-3629-configure.ac-drop-bundled-gettext.patch \
+           file://nomandate.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "152927ac29cf0e61d7d019f261bb7d89"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "238c4552545dcf3065359bd50753abbb150c1b22ec5a36eaa02c82808293267d"
-- 
2.20.1



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