Re: BAD: Handling of package-index by package release and install system
|--==> "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?
Personally, I blame GNU/tar. Try doing this:
tar cvzf test.tar.gz /some/directory/
md5sum test.tar.gz > test.md5
rm test.tar.gz
tar cvzf test.tar.gz /some/directory/
md5sum test.tar.gz >> test.md5
cat test.md5
For some reason you'll have two different md5's.
Hrvoje> b. Can that be changed?
Don't know.
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