Lev Serebryakov <l...@freebsd.org> wrote: > ... gzip, for example, has "timestamp" field in header. > Try this locally, without any [D]VCS: > > % mkdir test && echo "one" > test/one.txt && echo "two" > test/two.txt > % tar czf test1.tar.gz test && sleep 5 && tar czf test2.tar.gz test > % md5 test1.tar.gz test2.tar.gz > MD5 (test1.tar.gz) = 7b7c763a9d1d4edca7b5b415ab297fec > MD5 (test2.tar.gz) = 703ac5387b2bd1146434516f1d761ed9 > % gzip -d test1.tar.gz test2.tar.gz > % md5 test1.tar test2.tar > MD5 (test1.tar) = 0ba33aa8ff6bffeeeb2d96efc38eec85 > MD5 (test2.tar) = 0ba33aa8ff6bffeeeb2d96efc38eec85
That is arguably a bug in "tar czf" :) but it is easy enough to work around; we just need a checksum method -- e.g. SHA256_UNGZ -- that pipes the distfile through gunzip when computing its checksum. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"