Use -n to omit timestamps in manpages for reproducablity #186
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| @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pkg: control/pkginfo | |||
| $(STRIP) src/ipmitool | |||
| (cd control ; pkgmk -o -d /tmp) | |||
| pkgtrans -s /tmp $(PKG) ipmitool | |||
| gzip -c /tmp/$(PKG) > $(PKG).gz | |||
| gzip -nc /tmp/$(PKG) > $(PKG).gz | |||
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Are you really using Solaris? As far as I can see, the whole pkg target is non-functional on Linux (at least Ubuntu) because there are no pkgmk and pkgtrans tools.
Is this really an issue on Solaris? Is this the only thing that prevents reproducible builds for you?
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No, I am working on yocto based linux in this case.
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Well, not that I'm totally against this change, but I'm still not convinced that it is actually needed. How come that a Yocto-based Linux uses this Makefile target? In the default openembedded recipe for ipmitool I do not see any references to this target, as well as I don't see any recipe that provides pkgtrans that is required for this target.
It still looks like this target is some kind of atavism and needs to be removed rather than patched.
Am I wrong?
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