[bug#34223] Fixing timestamps in archives.

[Tim Gesthuizen]

Hi Ludo,

as discussed before I have looked into the problems of timestamps in the
zip files.
I looked at the way this is solved in ant-build-system with jar files
and thought that this could be done in a more elegant way.
Because of this I wrote a simple frontend for LibArchive in C that
repacks archives and sets their timestamps to zero and disables
compression as it is done in the ant-build-system.
Creative as I am the program is called repack.
You find a git repository attached with the history of the repack program.
The attached patches add repack to Guix and use it for pwsafe and the
ant-build-system.

This is a work in progress version: If you like these changes I will
work on missing details so that we can add it, otherwise now would be a
good point to stop development on these changes.
I can still fall back to the variant that ant-build-system uses now for
pwsafe.

It would be nice if you could find the time to review everything and
tell me what you think about the patches.
The changes trigger a lot of rebuilds so it will take some time to build
dependencies of the required programs.

The repack tar contains a bare git repository with the program.
Because I could not yet find a place to host the repository you need to
unpack it somewhere, create an archive with the source code and change
the guix definition of repack to use that source.

Tim.

0001-gnu-Add-repack.patch
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0002-guix-utils-Add-repack-archives.patch
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0003-gnu-pwsafe-Remove-timestamps-from-zip-files.patch
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0004-guix-ant-Use-repack.patch
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0005-guix-ant-build-system-Use-repack-archives.patch
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0006-gnu-ant-bootstrap-Use-strip-jar-timestamps.patch
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0007-gnu-icedtea-8-Use-repack.patch
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0008-gnu-openjdk9-Use-repack-for-repacking-zips.patch
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0009-gnu-openjdk-Use-repack-for-repacking-zips.patch
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0010-gnu-ant-java8-Use-repack-for-repacking-archives.patch
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0011-gnu-ant-Use-repack-for-repacking-archives.patch
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repack.tar.xz
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