[Buildroot] BR2_REPRODUCIBLE issues

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Nov 4 22:24:41 UTC 2017


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
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