Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#806331: [xz-devel] Re: xz-utils: make the selected POSIX shell stable accross build environments

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/15/2016 01:44 PM, Ximin Luo wrote: In such a case, it is a bug to be using $POSIX_SHELL - which only tests for conformance with POSIX and not these "other bugs that make it unusable". Gnulib can't test for all POSIX violations, only for the ones it knows about. CONFIG_SHELL lets the user

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [Help-tar] [PATCH] Add --clamp-mtime option

2015-06-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: We use BUILD_DATE=$(dpkg-parsechangelog -S Date) to get the time of the latest debian/changelog entry. Other projects could use BUILD_DATE=$(git log -1 --pretty=%cd). Hah! I use git log -1 --format='tformat:%ct' for this situation in the tzcode distribution. Great minds