[External] Changing the os-release BUILD_ID back to its default value of DATETIME

[William Kennington]

Personally I would rather have deterministic builds and don't like
arbitrary build timestamp injection into images. But we can announce
the plan to change this behavior and adjust build processes
accordingly.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:34 PM Lei Yu <yulei.sh at bytedance.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:00 AM Adriana Kobylak <anoo at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There has been some discussion in Discord on how to work around the "Same version" limitation during fw updates, and having a timestamp field that could be used to generate a different version id (commit id plus timestamp field) for every build seemed had positive support in the discussion.
>
> So the hash will be calculated as the `VERSION_ID` and `BUILD_ID` (as
> timestamp), is it?
> +1 for this proposal.
>
> --
> BRs,
> Lei YU