>>> On 25.10.18 at 16:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/10/18 13:35, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 24.10.18 at 15:45, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> in order to make builds reproducible. >>> See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good. >> But is this something everyone wants, unconditionally? I'm >> generally happy to have this basic indication of when a certain >> image was built; I regret that ELF images have no such >> indication. > > What practical purpose does having a time stamp serve? If you really > need to see, what is wrong with the mtime in your build tree?
This can be changed by simple "cp" to another location. > For shipped binaries to customers, exactly when it was built is > irrelevant, whereas peoples ability to independently verify the > integrity of the binary is important. Correct, which is why I appreciate the _option_ of zapping the timestamp. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
