Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files

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

The following reply was made to PR misc/50119; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 01:17:17 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:15:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  But you do get the same NetBSD version. Just like most IDS don't care
 >  about the timestamps in the filesystem, I don't see why we should care
 >  about them in the release sets.
 
 Convenience: because we distribute base.tgz and not the single files,
 so it's much easy to run checksums on the couple of *.tgz files we
 distribute instead of all the single files.
  Thomas