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

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@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 08:54:11 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:20:00PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 >  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.
 
 But on the other hand you lose important information - I want to know
 whether some file changed contents (easy to verify by sha1) and from
 what attempt to build the reproducable content I got it (timestamp).
 
 Martin