On 04.12.2015 17:10, Alexander Couzens wrote:
> mkstandalone adds several files to an archive. Doing this it uses the
> mtime to give these files a timestamp.
> --fixed-time <TIME_EPOCH> overrides these timestamps with a given.
> 
> Replacing all timestamps with a specific one is required
> to get reproducible builds. See source epoch specification of
> reproducible-builds.org
Patch in general looks good. I'm unsure about which way the timestamp
should be passed and parsed. I see 3 solutions:
1) Argument and use some standard function to parse date supply argument
+<value>
2) Essentially what you have done. It feels a bit ugly but not too much
3) Read directly from variable.
WDYT?
> +  {"fixed-time", 't', N_("TIMEEPOCH"), 0, N_("Use a fixed timestamp to override mtime of all files. Time since epoch is used."), 2},
It's not worth spending a letter on this. Please keep only long version.