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On Tue, 17 May 2022 14:14:57 +0200, |
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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 1:37 PM Markus Walter <lists@×××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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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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> Wouldn't a simpler solution be to just have an ebuild setting that |
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> tells the package manager to not check the timestamp? |
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The timestamps are inside archive files thus changing the overall file |
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hash. This happens during distfile download, where some more sophisticated |
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replace all timestamps function would be necessary than just ignoring one |
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timestamp. |
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Markus |
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more |
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intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much---the wheel, New |
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York, wars and so on---while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about |
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in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always |
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believed that they were far more intelligent than man---for precisely the |
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same reasons. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.) |
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