[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 03/18] reproducible: add '-n' to gzip invocations

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 23 21:49:16 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:58:42 +0100, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> Default invocation to gzip include timestamp in output file. This feature is
> incompatible with BR2_REPRODUCIBLE. It is possible to disable it with '-n'.
> 
> The environment variable GZIP can hold a set of default options for gzip. So
> instead to find all gzip invocation in build process, we just export 'GZIP=-n'.
> 
> Notice bzip2, lzma and xz are not impacted by this problem. On the other hand, lzop
> does include timestamp and does not provide any way to disable it.
> 
> This work was sponsored by `BA Robotic Systems'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> ---

Applied to next, thanks.

Thomas
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