From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Purpose of ptxd_install_fixup_timestamps
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160122151848.GE6233@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHChq8Or776RUQsFb1poguacVgsxOS2Eqz2nsEaG0HDHEa1MZQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Albert Antony wrote:
> Could someone please explain what the purpose of the
> ptxd_install_fixup_timestamps function is? It is called in the
> targetinstall stage just before xpkg generation, seemingly in order to
> change the timestamps on all soon-to-be-packaged files to the date
> indicated by the PTXdist version. Why would one want to do that? Or am I
> missing something here?
This is to minimize the differences between two builds. We're still a long
way from 100% reproducible builds, but it's one step in that directions.
It also reduces unnecessary changes when doing things like binary diff
updates with filesystems like squashfs.
Michael
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