Re: update on reproducible builds

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:28:55PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:19:51PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > This was already possible before -- you set MKREPRO=yes and
> > MKREPRO_TIMESTAMP to the seconds-since-epoch of that timestamp.
> 
> I fully fail to understand
> 
>  (a) the desire to keep the timestamps all identical (but that is
>      more a matter of taste or something)

Because the files are tarred up into release tarballs, and ideally,
those tarballs would be bit-identical if built from the same sources.
 Thomas