Re: Forrestbot site publishes always include dtd pdf changes

> On 25 Jan 2018, at 9:41 am, David Crossley <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:50:43PM +1100, Gavin McDonald wrote:
>> As per the subject, I was checking through the forrest svn-site mailing list archives [1] and noticed that every time (usually David) publishes the Forrest website, two pdf changes to the same two documents (v13 and v20) are always published as well - even though they are clearly not part of the changes that triggered the publish in the first place.
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>> Do we know why? 
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> Yes. There is some discussion and issues in the archives, but sorry i have no time to find it.

ack thanks, after I sent this note a bit of deja vu crept in :)

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> IIRC, it has something to do with the generation of the PDFs by FOP.
> It rewrites some metadata (perhaps "date") every time.
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> As you can see from [1] i just let it deploy anyway.

ok thanks.
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> You may find also that there is some generated image that changes for no apparent reason.
> This flip-flops depending on the operating system of the person doing the deployment.
> We have not seen it for a while, as it has been only me doing the publishing.

Ok, lets see what happens when I do it - these days Im on a MAC

Gav…

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> -David
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>> Gav…
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>> [1] -  https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]:2017-10 <https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]:2017-10> 
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