Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:45:43PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >>> [...], but I wonder if there is any point in keeping the date [in
> >>> the bootloaders]
> >> Personally, I find it useful to make sure I've got the bootloader I
> >> think I do installed, usually after a change-and-rebuild.  "Wait a
> >> minute, this one was built two months ago, not ten minutes ago; what
> >> went wrong?".
> > That's what the version number is supposed to tell you.
> 
> Any version number that could tell me what I use the datestamp for
> would be functionally equivalent to a datestamp, except less easy to
> verify.

The version number is not a random property of the build time. It is a
property of the source tree, which tends to be a lot more useful. Just
because you build any branch, including current, 3 month ago, doesn't
say much about the sources.

Joerg