From: David Ward on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/issues/39#note_562573307
I think I lumped too many different things together, and I'd like to focus on just one question that is important to me. If someone checks out a specific tag in kernel-ark (which in turn corresponds to a specific upstream commit), and runs `make dist-all-rpm` to produce a package — how can we make sure it produces exactly the same NVR, regardless of what the system clock says when that command is run? I believe the correct answer is, for snapshots, we should replace `date +%Y%m%d` with the date that the tagged commit was made in kernel-ark. (This is _not_ an upstream commit merged by Linus; it is a commit on the `os-build` branch.) If that tagged commit is `$(HEAD)`, then the date would be `git show -s --format=%cd --date=format:%Y%m%d $(HEAD)`. If I'm interested in the exact time that a build was run, rather than what sources the build contains, that information exists outside of the NVR. The RPM package metadata contains the build date. Koji [also shows](https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1740788) when the build task was started and completed. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
