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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Re: How to deal with git sources? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:27:26 | ||
| Message-Id: | 23211.29139.268130.891883@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Re: How to deal with git sources? by Ulrich Mueller |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I think the conclusion is that github generates tarballs on the fly, |
| 4 | > and therefore we cannot rely on them being invariant over a long time. |
| 5 | > They may be susceptible to changes in git, in tar, or in gzip. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | In fact, only git and gzip (because the tar archive is built by git |
| 8 | itself). This doesn't change the argument, though. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Ulrich |