Hello, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> skribis:
>>> [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >>Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because >>they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length >>of commit hash prefixes, etc.) It’s probably worse than tarballs >>generated by Git hosting services. >> >>So we should probably work towards using local copies of patches, >>unless >>we find that the generated patches do not include any variable bits. >> > > Maybe we could pass the patches through some sanitizer to strip any metadata? > I guess the content itself shouldn't change? We can’t really do that, or the downloads would no longer be fixed-output derivations and thus we wouldn’t be solving the problem. Ludo’.
