Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: add knob for fixed VGABIOS date string

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 24, Ian Campbell wrote:

> Is it expected that they should all be settable independently? Or would
> one global setting be sufficient?

A single timestamp would be nice, sure.

> If so then a single variable which can be set to something accepted by
> date -d which could be formatted in each location would seem preferable.

I did consider that. But that adds a dependency on 'date -d'. Not sure
if every build environment supports that. On Linux everyone will most
likely run date(1) from coreutils, which understands -d. Not sure about
BSD. I dont have access to BSD right now to check if their date
understands it. Their online manuals state that -d means something
else...

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?date++NetBSD-current
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=date
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/date.1?query=date

In the end I think its acceptable to have a number of variables from
environment or make cmdline. Its only used during automated package
build.

Olaf

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