Re: F38 proposal: Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (System-Wide Change proposal)
On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 12:42 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022, at 5:53 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
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> Wouldn't be easier to admit that timesamps are nonsense and simply eradicate
> all of them stamps from various data formats rather than trying to fake them?
> Simply changing rpmbuild to set timestamp to 0 for all contained files, or
> removing the time attribute from the RPM format completely?
This is what ostree has done since its inception.
And it broke some software, I know because i had to fix it.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc