On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, at 9:49 AM Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Yo James! > > On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:00:41 -0800 > James Browning via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > > > IIRC the python ntpclients compare version includes the git commit > > (excluding releases?) And includes the build epoch. I remember that > > the build epochs didn't match in a version of the Gentoo ebuild. > > > You can't use build epochs to match files. waf will happily let you > recompile only parts of a package. Then the build epochs do not match. > They should take less rope then. If only to decrease the warnings. > Another reason not to use them it to move to reproduceable builds. > Ideally you can build the same source at different times on different > hosts, and the results match exactly. > How about the attached patches then. The first tries to grab the time of the last git commit, but only if neither the environment nor command line contains a timestamp. The latter changes the extended version format to list commits since the last tag (if not 0) and a dirty tree indicator. Otherwise, I'd have to recommend you do something productive about it.
0001-wscript-Use-last-git-commit-time-for-build_epoch-if-.patch
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