Re: ✘Python 2.7 broken

[James Browning]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, at 9:49 AM Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> Yo James!
>
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:00:41 -0800
> James Browning via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
> > IIRC the python ntpclients compare version includes the git commit
> > (excluding releases?) And includes the build epoch. I remember that
> > the build epochs didn't match in a version of the Gentoo ebuild.
>
>
> You can't use build epochs to match files.  waf will happily let you
> recompile only parts of a package.  Then the build epochs do not match.
>

They should take less rope then. If only to decrease the warnings.


> Another reason not to use them it to move to reproduceable builds.
> Ideally you can build the same source at different times on different
> hosts, and the results match exactly.
>

How about the attached patches then. The first tries to grab the time of
the last git commit, but only if neither the environment nor command line
contains a timestamp.

The latter changes the extended version format to list commits since the
last tag (if not 0) and a dirty tree indicator.

Otherwise, I'd have to recommend you do something productive about it.
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