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authorPhil Pennock <pdp@exim.org>2017-04-12 23:22:36 -0400
committerPhil Pennock <pdp@exim.org>2017-04-12 23:28:09 -0400
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tree0198a45704bbc75e3cc13569ac9f8155b8561cac /doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
parent78a3bbd585b7ee0961dee45163c36904a419388b (diff)
$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for build date stamp
If, and _only_ if, $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is found in environ during build, use it to set the timestamp embedded in the binary instead of using __DATE__ and __TIME__ cpp directives. This per <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/> spec. It's sane and sensible, without removing date stamping which matters. The examples encourage packagers to use timestamps which do change when they backport patches, so that the date remains useful for distinguishing builds instead of claiming one date forever across multiple patchlevels. This change written so that the old behaviour and code is used if the environment variable is not found, to better continue to support ancient platforms with other variants of date(1). Built with and without an override, on macOS.
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@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
is used (3.2.4 +).
+PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
+ <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
+
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