Use RELEASE_NOTES date instead of build date #1289
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I think for this repo, we update the RELEASE_NOTES file with every release, so if you are looking for a stable timestamp to reference for the build date, it would be better to use that file. How does that sound? |
to make builds reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for the definition of this variable. This date call only works with GNU date and BSD date. This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE, sponsored by the NLnet NGI0 fund.
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Use
RELEASE_NOTESdate instead of build dateto make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good
and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
for the definition of this variable.
This date call only works with GNU date and BSD date.
Alternatively, https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/#makefile could be implemented.
This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE, sponsored by the NLnet NGI0 fund.