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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:46:40
Message-Id: AANLkTilF4TfgRY2ypH7F3NDR-xShNqMPJnEnveyjbDo_@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > * Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> schrieb:
3 >
4 >> Or if they generate the tarball on-the-fly with no caching, which
5 >> results in differing timestamps each time. Hence, each time you fetch
6 >> it, you get a tarball with a different hash.
7 >
8 > Does portage check the timestamps ?
9 >
10
11 I think you need to sit down and understand how tarballs are made,
12 what they contain, and what a "hash" means, and how it's calculated.
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16 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
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18 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team