missing date from version

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Hi,
> I just compiled r355429 for amd64, and noticed that the compilation date is missing from ‘name -a’.
> FreeBSD hp-600 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r353429 HUJI  amd64
>
> there is a now (maybe for a long time?)  a -R option to newvers.sh.
> is there an option to change this?

This is to do with reproducible builds: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Add to /etc/src.conf:

WITHOUT_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD=YES

cheers, Jamie