[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download: really, really make git archives reproducible

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Feb 27 22:18:27 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > The way we use it, gzip will store the current time in the header, which
 > leads to unreproducible archives.

 > Fiss that by telling gzip to not store the name and date of the file it
 > compresses, with the -n option. Since it compresses its stdin, there was
 > already no filename stored; now there's even no date stored.

 > Note: gzip has had -n since at least 1.2.4, released in 1993, so
 > virtually every gzip out there nowadays has it.

 > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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