On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote:
> > When CRAN repacks and changes the DESCRIPTION file, the checksums change, > of course. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > Dear Uwe, I understood that from the previous issue. In this case however, none of the files -including the DESCRIPTION file- were changed. Am I right in suspecting that a package is repacked when moved to the archive? I suspect that the tool used to repack the package is using gzip, and it is possible to repack without adding a timestamp as explained here : https://serverfault.com/questions/110208/different-md5sums-for-same-tar-contents I can explain the different checksums when some things are changed to our HPC sysadmins, but they have -understandibly- difficulties with checksums changing for released source tarballs. Is it possible to adapt the archiving so that at least for identical tarballs the md5 sums remain the same? Or if you have other suggestions to deal with this without having to change hardcoded checksums in the easybuild repos, that would be very welcome too. Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> tel: +32 (0)9 264 61 79 ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel