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From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:59:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140927135942.GL4704@n0nb.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnq1nqb9.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

* On 2014 27 Sep 08:32 -0500, David Thompson wrote:
> 
> This is by design in order to have more deterministic builds.  If two
> files have the same contents but have different timestamps, then they
> will have different hashes.

Thanks, David.

That helps me understand the system a bit better.

- Nate

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-27 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-27 13:09 Dates set to Dec 31 1969 Nate Bargmann
2014-09-27 13:30 ` David Thompson
2014-09-27 13:59   ` Nate Bargmann [this message]
2014-09-27 14:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-27 17:56   ` Nate Bargmann
2014-09-27 18:55     ` Ludovic Courtès

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