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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:42:06
Message-Id: 20100627103443.GA23460@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> schrieb:
2 > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:09:09 +0200
3 > Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
4 > > Well, with git this works. (I'll yet have to run some automatic
5 > > stress tests, but at all my manual tests worked really fine).
6 >
7 > You assume that, given the same input and program options, a
8 > compression program will always produce the same output. This is not
9 > the case.
10
11 Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet.
12 But: true, it might change between tar versions.
13
14 A more sophisticated approach, IMHO, would be: directly fetching
15 from the VCS, but that would probably mean a major design change.
16 (my Briegel buildsystem goes this way ... it doesnt even patch
17 on itself anymore, thats done entirely in git)
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19
20 cu
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23 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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25 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
26 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
27 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
28 http://patches.metux.de/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>