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From: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Cc: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/3] os-release: Make date string reproducible
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200228154010.t3qdmkrtcojxyf6w@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228101609.hq5ubu5zqi6xfklx@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:16:09AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:44:48PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
> > ---
> >  rules/os-release.make | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules/os-release.make b/rules/os-release.make
> > index 5156156a0..ba607aa38 100644
> > --- a/rules/os-release.make
> > +++ b/rules/os-release.make
> > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ $(STATEDIR)/os-release.targetinstall: $(PTXDIST_PTXCONFIG) $(PTXDIST_PLATFORMCON
> >  		@PTXDIST_VERSION@, $(PTXDIST_VERSION_FULL))
> >  
> >  	@$(call install_replace, os-release, /usr/lib/os-release, \
> > -		@DATE@, $(shell date +%FT%T%z))
> > +		@DATE@, $(shell date --utc --date @$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) '+%FT%T%z'))
> 
> So I think we
> should rather set the build date to the modification time of the newest
> source file in the BSP. We could do that by defining a variable in
> scripts/lib/ the same manner as PTXDIST_BSP_AUTOVERSION.

That isn't as easy as I thought, as file mtimes get updated when doing a
VCS checkout. Also we would have to list all files in the BSP (and all
base layers), which could potentially be a very I/O heavy operation, or
need to deal with blacklists or whitelists of folders, but then needed
to make sure nothing in that folders is included in a bash script /
kconfig file / Makefile.

Instead we could use the date of ./tarball-version (like
PTXDIST_BSP_AUTOVERSION does too) or the current VCS commit; or if the
BSP is not a VCS repo, or if the worktree has local changes, fall back
to searching for the most recent file in the current BSP.

Does this sound reasonable?

 - Roland

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-27 14:44 [ptxdist] [PATCH 0/3] Minor build improvements Alexander Dahl
2020-02-27 14:44 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/3] opkg: Regenerate config after input variable changes Alexander Dahl
2020-03-20 11:31   ` Michael Olbrich
2020-03-27 13:24     ` Michael Olbrich
2020-02-27 14:44 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/3] os-release: Make date string reproducible Alexander Dahl
2020-02-28 10:16   ` Roland Hieber
2020-02-28 15:40     ` Roland Hieber [this message]
2020-02-28 16:14       ` Alexander Dahl
2020-02-29  8:48         ` Michael Olbrich
2020-02-29 17:41           ` Alexander Dahl
2020-03-20 11:38             ` Michael Olbrich
2020-02-27 14:44 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 3/3] rootfs: issue: " Alexander Dahl
2020-03-20 11:39   ` Michael Olbrich
2020-03-20 12:08     ` Alexander Dahl
2020-03-20 12:44       ` Michael Olbrich

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