On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basically, RPM assumes an upstream download URL. If this is possible for > you to provide then it would make life a little easier. If not, then at > least please use gzip -n option for the archive. This will ensure all > tar.gzs of the same version are byte-for-byte identical. Andy, I just committed a release tarball normalization patch to all three repositories. That should ensure that 'make release' always produce tarballs with the same md5sum for a given version. That required however much more than just gzip -n: * Now forcing gzip -n to compress the release tarball. * Forcing gzip compression level to 6. * Setting the timestamp for all files in the archive to the last commit's one. * Feeding a sorted list of files to tar. * Forcing numeric UIDs in tarball and original owner/group to be uid 0. * Forcing gnu archive format. * Forcing blocking factor. * Forcing name quoting style. * Preserve git archive original permissions. My tests on various sytems - using different user IDs and umasks, different versions of tar and gzip, pulled and cloned repositories - all produces identical release tarballs now according to md5sum. Best Regards, -- Jérôme Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
