On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:59:14PM -0700, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 10:41 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Given that the tar file itself seems to remain consistent, I imagine it
> should be quite fixable (e.g. just different options to . However, it
> seems that repo.or.cz is just using gitweb, and thus any patches would
> need to be done there.
I suspect, it's primarily the timestamp of the tar ball creation
(which is in the file system when creating the .tar, not the .tar.gz)
which changes the checksum of the resulting .tar.gz when both are
generated on the fly a second time.
Kind regards, Axel
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