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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#32342: [PATCH] Allow to override time_stamp with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH |
Date: | Thu, 2 Aug 2018 10:49:28 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
On 08/02/2018 09:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I had the same initial negative reaction to adding support for an envvar, but given the minor effect and worthy goal, I think the balance has tipped in favor of allowing this one.
Yes, on further thought I'm inclined to go whole hog and just fix the durn thing without any fancy environment variables. In hindsight, that timestamp never should have been put in there when stdin is a pipe. I installed the attached patch, which should fix the problem. What do you think? Although this is not strictly backward-compatible and arguably violates the GNU coding guidelines, I can't imagine anybody really wants that timestamp in there (except perhaps for spy agencies trying to track what people are doing :-).
0001-gzip-make-the-output-more-reproducible.patch
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