Time namespaces
Time namespaces
Posted Sep 27, 2018 0:11 UTC (Thu) by mhelsley-vmw (guest, #122101)Parent article: Time namespaces
I wonder if this could also be useful when kicking off reproducible builds. Lots of software/package/container build scripts use the current time, at some granularity, to stamp (parts of) a build. Being able to set a specific build time without having to modify thousands of bespoke build scripts might be handy for anyone who wants to verify that builds can indeed be reproduced.
Posted Sep 27, 2018 21:01 UTC (Thu)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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Time namespaces
Well, then your build also needs to go at the same speed as the other builds. If I build on an RPi, I'm going to get a different embedded timestamp at the start and end compared to a Xeon running QEMU.