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: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:53:03 +0200

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:20:00PM +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 01:17:17 +0200
 > 
 >  On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:15:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  >  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.
 >  
 >  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.
 
 The mtree files have the per-file checksums and are sorted, just compare
 those or filter them for checksum and file name.
 
 Joerg