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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:55:57 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/22] Remove the DATE variable
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> Well, it's just that I don't very much like to have unused
 Thomas> variables here and there. One way to make it useful is for
 Thomas> example to store the build date into some file in the target
 Thomas> filesystem.

True. We could perhaps add it to /etc/os-release?

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard