Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:20:00PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/50119; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: misc/50119: MKREPRO: get repeatable timestamps for output files
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 01:17:17 +0200
> 
>  On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:15:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  >  But you do get the same NetBSD version. Just like most IDS don't care
>  >  about the timestamps in the filesystem, I don't see why we should care
>  >  about them in the release sets.
>  
>  Convenience: because we distribute base.tgz and not the single files,
>  so it's much easy to run checksums on the couple of *.tgz files we
>  distribute instead of all the single files.

The mtree files have the per-file checksums and are sorted, just compare
those or filter them for checksum and file name.

Joerg