[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download: generate reproducible Bazaar archives

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Jan 3 20:51:56 UTC 2016


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

 > Similarly to what has previously been done for the Hg download backend,
 > instruct bzr to generate the archive on stdout, so that we can generate
 > reproducible archives.

 > When instructing bzr to generate the output file by itself, it uses a
 > temporary file that is then fed to gzip, which in turn stores the
 > timestamp of that file in the generated archive, whereas when the output
 > is generated on stdout, there is no timestamp, so the archive is then
 > reproducible.

 > Bizarely enough, we can tell 'bazaar' not to generate a bazaar in the
 > archive. Cool, uh? ;-]

:P

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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