[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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