Re: Time travel accident

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Konrad,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

> That problem has been reported elsewhere and identified as caused by an
> expired certificate:
>
>    https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/18441
>
>
> I guess there is nothing we can do retroactively to fix this, but can we
> do something to prevent such issues in the future?

This has been discussed on several occasions, such as:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58650

Unfortunately there’s no bullet-proof way to avoid these time bombs.

My plan is to write a service that makes it easy to offload a build to a
VM that runs with a different time (“in the past”) or something along
these lines to mitigate the problem.

Ludo’.