From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:30:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnq1nqb9.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140927130912.GK4704@n0nb.us>
Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> writes:
> As much as I'd like to be six years old again in some aspects, I'm
> curious why most of the dates under /gnu/store and under ~/.guix-profile
> are set to Dec 31 1969? Yes, I know that this is just before the
> beginning of the Unix epoch, which must figure into the equation in some
> way.
>
> If this is in the FM, I apologize for the noise as I haven't completed
> the manual yet.
>
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.
--
David Thompson
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-27 13:31 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 [this message]
2014-09-27 13:59 ` Nate Bargmann
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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