svn commit: r459019 - in head/benchmarks: . lzbench

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:18:45AM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 07:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Because GitHub releases (tarballs) are not fetched with correct
> > modification time, set TIMESTAMP to 1515146810 which corresponds to
> > commit 6c4ad37 tagged as this release.
> 
> I've seen you say this a couple of times now and I don't think it really
> matters.  If I remember correctly TIMESTAMP isn't really related to
> distfiles.  It has something to do with reproducible builds.  All files
> generated during build are supposed to get this timestamp or something,
> so the same port built on different machines at different times results
> in exactly the same package.

Tijl (sorry for delayed reply),

Yeah, I know about the idea behind the TIMESTAMP thingy.  I not saying
that having some kind of timestamp attached to a port is bad or unneeded
thing, or that reproducible builds are useless, etc.  I'm just not very
happy with current implementation.  I've tried to make my point before:

  https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2016-May/124839.html
  https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2016-June/125564.html

./danfe