From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 23:24:41 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] BR2_REPRODUCIBLE issues In-Reply-To: <5c52008b-1ffa-7260-8681-5abeecd09665@mind.be> References: <1509720041684-0.post@n4.nabble.com> <87y3nn3yq6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <5c52008b-1ffa-7260-8681-5abeecd09665@mind.be> Message-ID: <20171104232441.4d7a4754@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 20:53:27 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > So I don't really agree that it useless. What we could perhaps do is to > > only export our value for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if not already set in the > > enviroment, so you can set it outside Buildroot if you want a different > > behaviour. > > Well, the proposed solution of using a config variable sounds OK. Only, I think > it would make more sense to have a config variable with a date, rather than a > commit ID. Why would we want a config option, rather than just comply with the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, if already defined in the environment? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com