On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:58:51PM +0200, Ben Woods wrote: > On Thursday, 12 May 2016, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Baptiste and I have been looking at reproducible builds in the FreeBSD > > ports tree, and one thing we'll need is a consistent timestamp that > > doesn't change when a port is rebuilt without changes. > > > > We considered a few different ideas, and have settled on experimenting > > with the time 'make makesum' is run. > > > > Hi Ed, > > Thanks for the heads up. > > Quick question: is there now an expectation that each time a port is > changed the timestamp should be updated?
Nope the goal is to change it as little as possible aka only when the main distfile actually change > > I.e. If a port changes in a way which does not change the distfiles, are we > supposed to run "make makesum" again anyway to record it has changed? Nope > > Or is the timestamp only supposed to change when the port is updates / > distfiles change? The make makesum command will do everything automagically Best regards, Bapt
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