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| author | Franz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de> | 2016-08-13 16:59:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Franz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de> | 2016-08-13 16:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | bd4490e2772ff80149dc9236873cfcbf1cb3f846 (patch) | |
| tree | e08b232c3e346efaff4a549b855fae1feb919b47 /doc/languages-frameworks/python.md | |
| parent | fa3a35b241def2f837d72b5de736c513d6856cf9 (diff) | |
| parent | 79149ac12d5009169900f027de2633a843e614f0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into hardened-stdenv
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diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.md index 99fb6774b82b7..9bce49805174d 100644 --- a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.md +++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.md @@ -748,6 +748,23 @@ in newpkgs.python35.withPackages (ps: [ps.blaze]) ``` The requested package `blaze` depends upon `pandas` which itself depends on `scipy`. +### `python setup.py bdist_wheel` cannot create .whl + +Executing `python setup.py bdist_wheel` fails with +``` +ValueError: ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980 +``` +This is because files are included that depend on items in the Nix store which have a timestamp of, that is, it corresponds to January the 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00. And as the error informs you, ZIP does not support that. +Fortunately `bdist_wheel` takes into account `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`. On Nix this value is set to 1. By setting it to a value correspond to 1980 or later it is possible to build wheels. + +Use 1980 as timestamp: +``` +SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=315532800 python3 setup.py bdist_wheel +``` +or the current time: +``` +SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date +%s) python3 setup.py bdist_wheel +``` ### `install_data` / `data_files` problems |