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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-09-14 20:50:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-09-14 20:50:00 -0400 |
| commit | 2fea7c86ef761141f00145702568ea2e3b86cd6b (patch) | |
| tree | d09a802b2ad4c387f9560463b6c12af80d59c905 | |
| parent | b5e33d44a4a838b8212a156b28b186331e5e4adb (diff) | |
documenting problems with the tarball generation process.
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn | 12 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ debian-package: tarball (cd monkeysphere-$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION) && debuild -uc -us) rm -rf monkeysphere-$(MONKEYSPHERE_VERSION) -freebsd-distinfo: tarball +# don't explicitly depend on the tarball, since our tarball +# (re)generation is not idempotent even when no source changes. +freebsd-distinfo: ./utils/build-freebsd-distinfo clean: diff --git a/website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn b/website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57012cb --- /dev/null +++ b/website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[ meta title="make tarball is not idempotent" ]] + +The current monkeysphere Makefile has a "tarball" target, which +produces the "upstream tarball". Unfortunately, it is not idempotent. +That is, if you run it twice in a row (without changing any other +source), the second .orig.tar.gz file is bytewise different from the +first. + +We should fix this so that the tarball generated is the same at least +as long as no local file has been touched. + +--dkg |