Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:07 +0000 From: Thomas Sandford <freebsduser@paradisegreen.co.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch Message-ID: <4B03DDCB.7010408@paradisegreen.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <a0777e080911180159n59a20c8fla87353e100db2c48@mail.gmail.com> References: <a0777e080911080731w461e6733peb0a5473acf07aa8@mail.gmail.com> <20091116121622.GA79691@hades.panopticon> <ceb3742532e6ac07cc450aafafa6022e@sbmail.office-on-the.net> <a0777e080911171359o728a78feye321912557cdcea4@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff0911171619q351717d2wd77ec37cad24d26b@mail.gmail.com> <a0777e080911180159n59a20c8fla87353e100db2c48@mail.gmail.com>
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(Sorry, Ive lost track of the higher level attributions, but) Eitan Adler wrote: >>> Creating deterministic tars (ignoring "metadeta") sounds like it >>> should be a solved problem by now. If it isn't then I will have to >>> make it my next project ;) >>> >> Instead of creating tar files, create zip files and then run them >> through torrentzip >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/archivers/torrentzip/ >> >> Torrentzip resets the date/time on the files and directories in the >> zip archive so that the checksum of the file will match, no matter who >> builds the zip file using the same set of files. >> >> Scot >> > > Does such a tool exist for tar archives? Couldn't you achieve the same thing by the use of touch(1) -- Thomas Sandford
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