[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10 v3] support/download: reproducible archives whatever tar version (branch yem/dl-git-tar-pax-2)

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:46:10 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:

> I was also considering a similar mechanism for the vendoring thingy...
> 
> My initial thought was to have a ways to extend this extra format
> version. I am not entirely sure how to do it, but probably something
> along the lines of:
> 
>     define cargo-inner
>     $(2)_VENDOR_VERSION = _cargo
>     endef
> 
>     define generic-inner
>     $(2)_SOURCE_EXT = $$($(2)_VENDOR_VERSION)$$(BR_FMT_VERSION_$$($(2)_SITE_METHOD)).tar.gz
>     endef
> 
> But this is not as nice as I'd like it to be... If you have another
> idea, please be my guest. ;-)

Hum, yes, that's an idea. We would still to change in lock-step all
.hash files for all cargo/go packages, even the ones that don't need
any vendoring. We also end up with pretty weird tarball names, like
_cargo_br1.tar.gz.

But oh well, perhaps that the price to pay to get all of this to work ?

Thomas
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