On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:29 AM Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:25:10PM +0200, Diego Rondini wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:16 AM Diego Rondini
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Khem,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:40 PM Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:59 AM Martin Jansa <[email protected]> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I've overlooked that it's from gitlab, but are you sure that 
> > > > > gitlab archives aren't re-generated from time to time like the github 
> > > > > archives are?
> > > > >
> > > > > Or are you sure that https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/releases are 
> > > > > developer uploaded archives? It looks like gitlab creates them 
> > > > > automatically:
> > > > > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/releases/
> > > > > like github does with tag archives.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > while it fixes the issue it is trying to fix, it would be better to
> > > > fix the non-deterministic archive issue as well while here, I dont
> > > > know if gitlab's archiving is reproducible perhaps a question for
> > > > gitlab, but it would be ok to switch to using git fetcher to avoid
> > > > that suspicion. What do you think?
> > >
> > > I've posted the question, so we get an answer for all the other gitlab
> > > projects that are out there:
> > > https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-release-tarball-stability/41888
> > >
> > > Let's see what the answer is.
> >
> > So we have an initial answer:
> > https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-release-tarball-stability/41888/3?u=diegorondini
> >
> > The summary is: tarballs can be regenerated, but they are regenerated
> > identical by git archive according to the manual.
> > The use of git archive in the source code is not guaranteed in the
> > future as at the moment there is no immutability test in the gitaly
> > service.
> >
> > Martin, Khem, what do you suggest to do?
>
> I would you git fetcher to be safe, like we already do for github
> archives.
>
> Extending the QA check to cover gitlab would be for bonus points :).
>

I would agree.

> Thanks
> >
> > Regards,
> > Diego Rondini
> > Sr. Embedded Engineer
> >
> > Kynetics
> > www.kynetics.com
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