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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Subject: Re: add UUID for comparison of installed package to binary package?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:02:28 -0800
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 12:11 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 02/14/2010 04:36 AM, Brian Harring wrote:
> > This gets nasty... you're basically talking about the rpm equivalent 
> > of EPOCH.
> > 
> > Not a fan of an adhoc UUID (especially since it'll become standard 
> > via portage doing it), but a *timestamp* for the build, labeled as 
> > such, gets you what you want and is usable for other things- detecting 
> > when to rebuild a scm package for example.
> > 
> > That route gets my vote, and should also address your intentions.
> > ~harring
> 
> Ok, then how about a vdb entry named CTIME that contains an integer
> number of seconds since the unix Epoch?

That would be UNIXTIME vs CTIME I'd think.



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