On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 1:37 PM Markus Walter <li...@jonglieren-jena.de> wrote: > > 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. >
Wouldn't a simpler solution be to just have an ebuild setting that tells the package manager to not check the timestamp? -- Rich
