I agree that in an ideal reproducible world timestamp (== physical time and its order) has no value. But it is useful to detect "unnecessary rebuild" - reproducible but built repeatedly & unnecessarily. I see some value in it.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Alan Barrett <a...@netbsd.org> wrote: > Module Name: src > Committed By: apb > Date: Thu Jan 23 21:45:27 UTC 2014 > > Modified Files: > src/distrib/sets: Makefile > > Log Message: > Remove time= keywords from METALOG.sanitised. > > The times add unnecessary differences to the DESTDIR trees for MKREPRO > builds, and they are not needed by anything. (maketars, the chief > consumer of METALOG.sanitised, explicitly ignores the time fields.) > > Also factor out some duplicated code and update comments. > > > To generate a diff of this commit: > cvs rdiff -u -r1.91 -r1.92 src/distrib/sets/Makefile > > Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the > copyright notices on the relevant files. >