Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] reproducible builds

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 09:46:03PM +0100, Alexander Couzens wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 14:19:11 -0500
> Kevin O'Connor  wrote:
> > FYI, there was a thread on this just a few weeks ago:
> >
> > http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2015-February/008603.html
> >
> > -Kevin
>
> Thanks!
> What's your reason for not having reproducible as default?

On trouble reports, the date and hostname are an indicator of whether
or not the build was a local build or distribution build, and it
provides some information to backtrack to the gcc/binutils versions of
the build if necessary.

The date/hostname clearly isn't a great solution to the above, but
it's better than nothing.
> Otherwise there is an intermediate approach:
> when the git tree is clean, use git commit as datesource
> if git tree is dirty use the local date.

That would certainly work to replace the time (hhmmss).

Please keep the mailing list on the CC.

Thanks,
-Kevin