From 2fea7c86ef761141f00145702568ea2e3b86cd6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:50:00 -0400 Subject: documenting problems with the tarball generation process. --- website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/bugs/make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn (limited to 'website') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3