Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> BTW, what timestamps to we put on the modified files? We want that to >> be deterministic so we cannot use the build time. We cannot use a date >> in the future, either. We cannot use Jan. 1 1970 either because that >> means that modified files may now be older than the unmodified files, >> which may break build systems; for the same reason, we cannot leave the >> mtime of modified files unchanged. >> >> Now that I think about it, it’s not clear to me what can be done without >> breaking something. >> >> Thoughts? > > We could set the timestamp of modified files to be 1 second newer than > the newest file in the original source archive.
Sounds like a good idea. Thanks, Ludo’.
