Re: update on reproducible builds

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:17:13PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> When I do real builds (as opposed to "does it still build after
> I just mangled things" builds) I do an update with -D  (or -r<tag>:<date>
> if it isn't a -current build but a build from a branch) using a specific
> timestamp (most commonly the most recent 00:00:00 UTC).  It would be
> nice to simply be able to tell build.sh that timestamp and have it
> used.   I also do these builds from a local copy of anoncvs (so no
> server mods will accomplish anything unless I update cvs on that system.)

This was already possible before -- you set MKREPRO=yes and
MKREPRO_TIMESTAMP to the seconds-since-epoch of that timestamp.
 Thomas