[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/34] reproducibility: introduce config knob

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 09 May 2016 09:42:05 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> Hmm, I'm not sure I like the extra complexity of 2 ways of doing
> things. What are the use cases for these timestamps? Are they important
> enough to keep?

I use timestamps all the time to verify that I'm indeed running the
version of the code I intend to run. As I work on the kernel, I use the
kernel timestamp, but I really use it all the time, to double check
that I'm running the kernel image I just built and not one that was
left around, built several days/weeks ago.

So timestamps are useful IMO.

Thomas
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