On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 03:49:23AM +0000, Dan Čermák wrote: > > > On June 24, 2021 9:22:51 PM UTC, "Miro Hrončok" <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On 24. 06. 21 23:07, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > >> Dne 24. 06. 21 v 15:48 Tomas Tomecek napsal(a): > >>>> One thing to consider is that the upstream tarballs might be > >cryptographically > >>>> signed and packages should verify the signature in %prep. > >>> This is a very good point - in such a case, we should always pull > >the > >>> official upstream tarball instead of generating a new one downstream > >> > >> Does it matter? If you are able to generate byte2byte identical > >tarball then > >> you can choose any of them. > > > >AFAIK git does not grantee to produce byte2byte identical archives > >across > >different versions of git, zlib, gzip etc. So even if upstream signs > >the git > >generated archive, generating a byte2byte identical one might be > >tricky. > > Especially with xz, which iirc has reproducibility issues in parallel mode. I think we should try to push upstream to sign git tags, instead or in addition to tarballs. For upstreams, this is actually much easier (just 'git tag' → 'git tag -s' and you're done) compared to e.g. signing a tarball on github which requires some interaction with the web service. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
