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

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