[Reproducible-builds] GSoC 2015 Week 8: Move forward reproducible builds

[Ximin Luo]

On 21/07/15 14:33, Maria Valentina Marin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/21/2015 01:06 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Sorry in advance if this sounds like nitpicking - I notice that a lot of these patches use BUILD_DATE instead of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Any reason for the difference? 
> 
> I used this fix because it was specified in the description here
> https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/not_using_dh_builddeb_issue.html
> 
> 
>> but could future patches use the latter? 
> 
> I can use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for future patches, and also modify the
> issue description.
> 
> Will this be okay for everybody?
> 

Sounds good to me; note that you have to change the commands to prepend a '@' in front of the variable, like:

find -newermt '@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)'
touch --date '@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)'

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