[OE-core] How to add build date?

[Joseph Reynolds]

On 11/18/19 3:53 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 16/11/2019 21:56, Joseph Reynolds wrote:
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>> Is there a best practice for folks who want to put the build date 
>> into their generated os-release file?  I've seen this question come 
>> up at least 3 times in my brief involvement with OE.  I could perhaps 
>> add comment to the OpenBMC os-release.bbappend file to provide the 
>> proper guidance.  I would like to hear your ideas.
>
> There's an image-buildinfo class that can inject build-specific 
> information of your chosing into the image.

Thank you, I was not aware of that.  That makes perfect sense.  I've 
added that to my answer in the OpenBMC email list, and hope to have a 
answer I can just refer to, for the next time someone asks this question.

Link to OpenBMC email thread: 
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-November/019479.html

- Joseph

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> Ross
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