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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:56:37
Message-Id: 20110131004810.GA15114@nibiru.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 * Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> schrieb:
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3 > GitHub _used_ to be broken and provide non-stable downloads, but they
4 > have since fixed that and the download of a tag will always have the
5 > same SHA512 digest, so it's just fine.
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7 That's great. How exactly did they do that ?
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9 IIRC one of the problems is/was that both tar and gz might not
10 be strictly deterministic (same input content might produce
11 differing tarball output) - am I wrong here ?
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