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On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 07:37:40PM +0200, Markus Walter wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> is it possible to do the following: after fetching a distfile portage runs |
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> an external normaliser program specified in an ebuild before checking the |
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> hash? |
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> My use case is the following: I would like to improve the gs-elpa program |
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> and provide a precomputed overlay for melpa. However the melpa distfiles are |
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> rebuilt everyday and cause checksum failures. However the only thing |
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> changing are the timestamps. Hence if a normaliser program could simply set |
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> all timestamps to some predefined value (say 1.1.1970) then this problem |
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> should vanish. |
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I don't know what 'gs-elpa' & 'Melpa' are, but maybe talking to upstream |
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would be good here, and improving that behavior. |
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If the file contents or non-timestamp metadata change, absolutely the |
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timestamps should change. But otherwise, the timestamp should NOT |
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change. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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