Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/3] barebox: add option for building barebox reproducibly

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:15:37PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:57:20AM +0000, Baeuerle, Florian wrote:
> > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH uses the ptxdist release number for the timestamp, thus the
> > timestamp changes with every ptxdist release. I'd prefer to *really* get the
> > same binary when the source code was not changed at all. A ptxdist version bump
> > has a high potential of not touching anything barebox related.
> > 
> > I also do not like mangling the barebox version into a timestamp, but I couldn't
> > come up with any better idea.
> 
> If I understood correctly, you want some timestamp which does not
> change, as long as barebox is not touched. Why not base it on the
> barebox version then? What would be the problem with that?

That's what his patch does. I'd like to have one timestamp for all of
PTXdist.

Michael


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