On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 07:37:40PM +0200, Markus Walter wrote: > Hello all, > > is it possible to do the following: after fetching a distfile portage runs > an external normaliser program specified in an ebuild before checking the > hash? > > My use case is the following: I would like to improve the gs-elpa program > and provide a precomputed overlay for melpa. However the melpa distfiles are > rebuilt everyday and cause checksum failures. However the only thing > changing are the timestamps. Hence if a normaliser program could simply set > all timestamps to some predefined value (say 1.1.1970) then this problem > should vanish. I don't know what 'gs-elpa' & 'Melpa' are, but maybe talking to upstream would be good here, and improving that behavior.
If the file contents or non-timestamp metadata change, absolutely the timestamps should change. But otherwise, the timestamp should NOT change. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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