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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] INSTALL: mention variables for
	reproducible builds
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:49:58 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 24, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 18:24 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > +Some components of xen and tools will include an unpredictable timestamp
> > +into the binaries. To allow reproducible builds the following variables
> > +can be used to provide fixed timestamps in the expected format.
> > +XEN_BUILD_DATE=any
> I'm not sure what this implies I'm allowed to pass here...

Any string would do, if I read the code correctly.
Would this be more obvious?

XEN_BUILD_DATE=<output of date(1)>

Olaf