On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:17 PM Steffen Dettmer <[email protected]> wrote: > for an embedded system I'd like to use parted to create a disk image > using a command like > > parted -s -a optimal $imgname mklabel msdos mkpart primary ext2 0% 100% > > followed by some "mke2fs $opts -d config_root_fs/ $loop". > > I would like to have reproducible (or "stable" or "cachable") output [...] > Probably there are more places (GUID in filesystem and such), so > probably it makes no sense to write a patch for "mklabel msdos", what > do you think?
That seems to be the case, mke2fs also creates quite different output, so I simply checked in the result to VCS (just a few KB compressed). Still I'd like to learn more, so I appreciate any thoughts. Maybe future versions could use getenv(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) [1], if it exists? Regards, Steffen [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
