From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 08:54:50 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] git tarball hashes [was: Report of Buildroot developer meeting FOSDEM 2019] In-Reply-To: <78472b2d-4adc-b110-273e-ddce78316dc2@mind.be> References: <78472b2d-4adc-b110-273e-ddce78316dc2@mind.be> Message-ID: <20190208085450.6306509e@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 23:55:24 +0100 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > On 07/02/2019 23:51, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > making sure the git backend > > produces reproducible tarballs by using the pax archive format (Yann started > > working on an implementation for that) > > ?I realized while writing this: how does this approach fix the instability of > gzip? Or do we assume that that was a one-off? Which gzip issue are you talking about ? I think we never had a *version* issue with gzip, only with installations where gzip is a symlink to pigz. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com