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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] INSTALL: mention variables for
	reproducible builds
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:55:37 +0000
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On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 09:49 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 18:24 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > +Some components of xen and tools will include an unpredictable timestamp
> > > +into the binaries. To allow reproducible builds the following variables
> > > +can be used to provide fixed timestamps in the expected format.
> > > +XEN_BUILD_DATE=any
> > I'm not sure what this implies I'm allowed to pass here...
> 
> Any string would do, if I read the code correctly.
> Would this be more obvious?
> 
> XEN_BUILD_DATE=<output of date(1)>

Yes.