From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, info@protesilaos.com, 48661@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48661: reproducibility: build date in modus-themes.info
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 12:40:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s41g4ms.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877djldcbl.fsf@gmail.com> ("Kévin Le Gouguec"'s message of "Wed, 26 May 2021 12:22:22 +0200")
On Mai 26 2021, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> Question from the peanut gallery: are timestamp information really
> verboten in reproducible builds? I was led to believe that the
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism was introduced to allow programs to keep
> embedding this information, while giving packagers the means to assert
> reproducibility.
That requires support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in each place a timestamp is
generated. For example, gcc does that for __DATE__ and __TIME__. If
org wants to keep the timestamp it should add support for
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-25 21:50 bug#48661: reproducibility: build date in modus-themes.info Glenn Morris
2021-05-26 9:15 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-05-26 10:22 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-26 10:40 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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