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