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

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

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

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:01:21 +0200

 On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 02:00:00PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > >Number:         50119
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    misc-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 03 14:00:00 +0000 2015
 > >Originator:     Thomas Klausner
 > >Release:        NetBSD 7.99.20
 > >Organization:
 > Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that 
 > curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.
 > - Arnold Edinborough
 > >Environment:
 > 	
 > 	
 > Architecture: x86_64
 > Machine: amd64
 > >Description:
 > Found in the debian MKREPRO builds for NetBSD:
 > When using the same tree to build on different dates, you will get different *.tgz
 > files since the created files get the current timestamp at the time of the build.
 
 I don't consider this a bug and I don't think there is any sane way to
 avoid it in general. For point release builds, some magic timestamp
 could be decided upon, but that's about it.
 
 Joegr