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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/3] os-release: Make date string reproducible
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:38:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320113813.GB7533@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200229174127.rprrfmjnlkukpxt2@falbala.internal.home.lespocky.de>

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:41:27PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:48:28AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:14:41PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:40:10PM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Or the user could just do anything she wants and feed it into
> > > REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_CUSTOM?
> > 
> > How about
> >  - 'now' (what we have now)
> 
> Nice for backwards compatibility and to not break expections of users.
> 
> >  - 'last commit' (CommitDate fromt the last commit)
> 
> Assuming the BSP is in Git, but most users will do that anyway. 
> 
> I consider this a good one. You get a comprehensible timestamp related
> to the BSP (instead of the ptxdist or toolchain version) while still
> getting the same result on multiple builds of the same revision of the
> BSP, wouldn't you?

Yes, exactly. And it should be the CommitDate not the AuthorDate.
It will be reproducible but still show when the last changes happened.

> >  - 'custom' (from a string)
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you'd want to put in a custom string, but I wouldn't mind
> > adding it.
> 
> +1

I'm sure someone will find a use-case for this as well...

Michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 11:38 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
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 [this message]
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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