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: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 01:13:34 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:05:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > 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
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
 > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 01:00:16 +0200
 > 
 >  On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:05:00PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  >  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.
 >  
 >  A magic timestamp is fine with me. I just want to get to a situation
 >  where I can rebuild a particular NetBSD version identically on a
 >  different machine without having to set the time on that machine and
 >  have the exact same runtime for the build (parts).
 
 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.
 
 Joerg