Re: BAD: Handling of package-index by package release and install system
>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
SY> |--==> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)arsdigita.com>
writes:
Hrvoje> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>> Building all the packages from scratch for me is a *BIG PAIN*
because
>> I would have to re-release each and every package each time I wanted
>> to release a single package. Because of the md5sums. Each time you
>> build a package you get a *different* md5sum, regardless of whether
>> anything has changed in the package.
Hrvoje> a. Why?
SY> Personally, I blame GNU/tar. Try doing this:
SY> tar cvzf test.tar.gz /some/directory/
SY> md5sum test.tar.gz > test.md5
SY> rm test.tar.gz
SY> tar cvzf test.tar.gz /some/directory/
SY> md5sum test.tar.gz >> test.md5
SY> cat test.md5
SY> For some reason you'll have two different md5's.
Could this be some kind of a calendar date, which becomes part of the
tarball and thereby part of the calculation?
Hrvoje> b. Can that be changed?
SY> Don't know.
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