bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds

2014-10-14 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 14/10/14 13:58, Eric Blake escribió: > Thanks for the report. Yes, we should fix mdate-sh to output results > in UTC, if it is easy to write portable shell to normalize dates (with > GNU date it is easy, but mdate-sh has to run on systems that lack GNU > date). Well the suggested workaround for

bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds

2014-10-14 Thread Eric Blake
merge 18714 18715 tag confirmed thanks On 10/13/2014 08:51 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: > The output of mdate-sh depends on the local timezone used by the system > which may trigger unneeded rebuilds in some situations (especially when > the packaging machine and the buildi

bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds

2014-10-13 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
The output of mdate-sh depends on the local timezone used by the system which may trigger unneeded rebuilds in some situations (especially when the packaging machine and the building machine are on different timezones). An example of such an issue can be found at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.c