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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070218081243.GA25618@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702180259210.14458@scrub.home>

On Sun, Feb 18, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > Pass a timestamp to kbuild via an enviroment variable.
> > 
> >     TZ=UTC BUILD_TIMESTAMP=2007-01-01 make -kj O=../O vmlinux
> > 
> > This can be used when the kernel source is in a SCM and uname -v
> > is supposed to give the commit date and not the package build time.
> 
> Is this really necessary? I don't really see the point of this.

The package/kernel buildtime does not mean much, but the commit date
gives you a way to restore the source state for a given binary.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16 21:52 Olaf Hering
2007-02-17  3:27 ` exporting LANG=C (Re: [PATCH] override build timestamp) Oleg Verych
2007-02-17 11:51   ` Olaf Hering
2007-02-17 12:15     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-18  1:57   ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-18  3:57     ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-18  2:04 ` [PATCH] override build timestamp Roman Zippel
2007-02-18  8:12   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2007-02-18 16:24     ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-19 13:14       ` Olaf Hering

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