Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with GNU install
Chris Lamb
chris at reproducible-builds.org
Wed Jul 22 15:06:03 UTC 2020
Ludovic Courtès wroteP
> > │ - Birth: 2020-07-20 09:02:11.688603176 +0000
> > │ + Birth: 2020-07-20 08:47:51.046971751 +0000
>
> As you can see above, Nix resets the modification time (“mtime”) of
> installed files to the Epoch plus one second.
>
> The creation time reported as “Birth” is an extension, not reported by
> stat(2), but fortunately it’s a piece of information that’s generally
> not used.
>
> Perhaps diffoscope should omit the creation time by default?
It has done so since version 146, released in May 2020:
https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-146-released/
Best wishes,
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