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On 06/26/2011 04:49 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> No, we can't have the manpage pre-rendered in the tarball, because that |
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> makes the tarball different every time it is created since the |
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> date/timestamps in the archive will be different. In other words, it is |
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> not possible for anyone to ever reproduce the exact same tarball that we |
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> produce. |
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The varience in timestamp has been no problem for other projects |
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including genkernel. If all that varies is the time stamp and it |
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matters to you, it would be easy to add a section to the Makefile |
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setting the timestamp to a hardcoded value. |
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> I see two ways around this: We can either make asciidoc a build time |
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> dependency so that the user can use something like "make manpage" to |
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> generate the manpage |
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That adds quite some load on indirect dependencies for more or less |
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nothing, as seen with Matt earlier. |
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> or we can go back to the manpage that is in the git |
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> repository. |
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Do I have to list reasons against this option? |
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Best, |
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Sebastian |