Hi, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <[email protected]>: > >> Perhaps the tarballs that repo.or.cz can generate for any commit, > >> e.g. > >> > >> http://repo.or.cz/w/conkeror.git/snapshot/8c8a5de39a9c23afc851956ff5b8e376cbc705d1.tar.gz > >> > >> will serve your purpose? > > > > Note, such tarballs don't have a consistent checksum, at least not > > in gzip(1)'ed state. > > It didn't occur to me that this might be an issue. It appears that > the tar files themselves are consistent, but gzipping likely stores > an (inconsistent) timestamp. I sent an e-mail to the repo.or.cz > admins regarding this issue; maybe they will change the tarball > creation to avoid the inconsistency.
As we rely on checksums on the tarballs in Gentoo, this is really a problem. And I think that the checksum change is a property of Git itself, but maybe I am wrong. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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