Re: (ITS#8928) Reproducibility: Remove user, hostname, pwd from version string

[douglas.royds@taitradio.com]

On 17/11/18 11:42 AM, Howard Chu wrote:

> douglas.royds@taitradio.com wrote:
>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/douglas-royds-181026.patch
>>
>> This updated patch also sets the date and time strings to the
>> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
> Are you intending a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to be a Unix time value? I.e., an integer?
> This value format needs to be documented.
>
> Unfortunately, your use of date -d is nonportable, it appears that only the GNU tools
> understand this option. It will fail on other platforms like *BSD, Solaris, that aren't
> using a GNU userland.
>
> Why can't you simply provide an already formatted date & time that can be used
> directly, instead of needing to be reformatted here?


URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/douglas-royds-181119.patch

Good point about BSD, my mistake. I have modified the patch to support 
BSD platforms as well, though I don't have access to a BSD platform to 
test it.

I have added a code comment with a link to the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH 
specification: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

A more human-readable description and tips for its use can be found 
here: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/