Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common

[Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost>]

On 11/25/15 08:54, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 01:30:37AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <CADbF7ee9mruyyCT+97v1bJh_0nH9tqLtr-RM5BPRgL+knb2RmA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
>> Masao Uebayashi  <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> bapt@freebsd taught me that FreeBSD uses ((the newest timestamp in the
>>> source files) + 1sec) in places where appropriate for reproducible
>>> build.  It might have been about Ports, but idea is it.
>>
>> That's a nice way to do it. How do they compute that?
> 
> I disagree - it needs to be set manually (and documented in the release
> notes). The above could be the rule how releng manually sets it though.

The automatic approach is great because we don't want reproducible
builds only for releases. It can be documented for releases regardless.

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khorben