version: Allow to override build date

mcrapet / plowshare

Command-line tool and engine for managing sharing websites

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Closed bmwiedemann closed 7 years ago

bmwiedemann commented 7 years ago

in order to make builds reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for the definition of this variable.

this patch works with GNU date and BSD date variants

Without the patch, we get such diffs when building packages for openSUSE: http://rb.zq1.de/compare.factory-20170807/plowshare-compare.out

mcrapet commented 7 years ago

Let's close this as you created an improved version with #98