Bug 835952 - doxygen generated pdf files are different in x86 and x86_64 builds
Summary: doxygen generated pdf files are different in x86 and x86_64 builds
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: doxygen
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 831401
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-27 15:53 UTC by Xavier Bachelot
Modified: 2015-02-17 14:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 14:19:00 UTC
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Description Xavier Bachelot 2012-06-27 15:53:29 UTC
Description of problem:
doxygen generated pdf files are different in x86 and x86_64 builds because of the front page and footer include the creation date. This is causing an rpm file conflict when said pdf file is present at the same location for rpms of different architecture.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2007-71.fc18

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build libbluray. It uses doxygen to generate a pdf file that is included at the same location in both the 32 and 64 bits builds.
2. try to install both libbluray-devel-0.2.2-2.fc18.x86_64.rpm and libbluray-devel-0.2.2-2.fc18.i686.rpm 
3.
  
Actual results:
Generated pdf file is different in the x86 and x86_64 build, causing an rpm file conflict.

Expected results:
Generated pdf files are identical, both the x86 and x86_64 rpms can be installed at the same time.


Additional info:
libbluray build with the conflicting pdf files :
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4189461

start of the fedora-devel thread where the issue is discussed :
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/168534.html

mail where the bug is detailed :
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/169323.html

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2012-12-10 15:02:50 UTC
to help so no one has to go searching onlist,

> 
> This build has the pdf file with a different timestamp in the i686 and
> x86_64 build.
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4189461
> 
> The pdf file is /usr/share/doc/libbluray-devel-0.2.2/libbluray.pdf from
> libbluray-devel-0.2.2-2.fc18
> 

it's a bug in pdftex (part of texlive package) which is used to create pdf 
files. pdftex writes the timestamps "CreationDate (%s)" and "ModDate (%s)" 
into PDF files.

extract from texk/web2c/pdftexdir/utils.c

-------
void printcreationdate()
{
    initstarttime();
    pdf_printf("/CreationDate (%s)\n", start_time_str);
}

void printmoddate()
{
    initstarttime();
    pdf_printf("/ModDate (%s)\n", start_time_str);
}

Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2013-02-02 07:31:02 UTC
It seems more like doxygen bug to me. There is a hyperref package which allows to influence pdf metadata:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94484/how-to-add-customized-created-modified-date-to-the-pdf-properties-information-wh

Not sure if it is a good idea to omit these fields globally to workaround pdflatex's default behaviour.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:51:07 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

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