From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 18 11:43:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE47106566C for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsduser@paradisegreen.co.uk) Received: from mail.paradisegreen.co.uk (almaz.paradisegreen.co.uk [81.187.228.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1B18FC17 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (cpc4-hudd10-0-0-cust70.hudd.cable.ntl.com [86.2.224.71]) by mail.paradisegreen.co.uk (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id nAIBhAGQ041352 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:11 GMT (envelope-from freebsduser@paradisegreen.co.uk) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=paradisegreen.co.uk; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:cc:subject: references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wrw2q923zIREuP3b4Rex9G+pGD6QnlxkjxIcSL77i9VkGk5RxbuxId1yrq7Bf5vJu BGwdl6vMGhJEzDNVQKoNA== Message-ID: <4B03DDCB.7010408@paradisegreen.co.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:07 +0000 From: Thomas Sandford User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20091116121622.GA79691@hades.panopticon> <790a9fff0911171619q351717d2wd77ec37cad24d26b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VERIFIED,MISSING_HEADERS autolearn=failed version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on almaz.paradisegreen.co.uk Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: svn for make fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:43:15 -0000 (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