[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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