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

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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
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Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:07:57 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:55:01AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >  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).
 
 Are you talking about update builds?
 
 I have no problem with base.tgz itself having the timestamp of the
 actual build. I just want base.tgz itself to be the same between
 MKREPRO builds (perhaps with an additional MKREPROTIMESTAMP set).
  Thomas