Hi, most everything here has been answered so far, so just a small note from me.
On Montag, 19. Oktober 2015, Santiago Vila wrote: > I don't think that > faketime is a lot special about this. Most of the time a simple > "touch" and options like tar's --owner and --group are enough to > achieve reproducibility. Personally, I have not seen faketime to be > used a lot, but this is just a personal feeling. we don't use faketime *at all*, as it has been been proven to be problematic / breaking some / many builds. we plan to run systems in the future in the future (=with a wrong system date), but we don't do this yet. (in the past we have run systems in the past for 1-2 days and then reverted this, as this caused troubles.) so: we never build *with* faketime, we just build faketime as we build all the packages. cheers, Holger
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