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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/efi: Do not insert timestamps in efi files


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:11:28 +0200
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  • Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:11:40 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
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On 25/10/2018 16.08, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 25.10.18 at 16:00, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> For shipped binaries to customers, exactly when it was built is
>> irrelevant, whereas peoples ability to independently verify the
>> integrity of the binary is important.
> 
> Correct, which is why I appreciate the _option_ of zapping the
> timestamp.

Adding an option for this, would make the (already somewhat ugly) patch
even more ugly, so I thought, that fixing it in binutils might be the
better way, because other projects will also want to create reproducible
PE binaries and we do not want to add such ugly patches to all of them.
=> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-10/msg00279.html


Let's see what they say.

Ciao
Bernhard M.

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