On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:25:10PM +0200, Diego Rondini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:16 AM Diego Rondini
> <diego.rond...@kynetics.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Khem,
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:40 PM Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:59 AM Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > OK, I've overlooked that it's from gitlab, but are you sure that gitlab 
> > > > archives aren't re-generated from time to time like the github archives 
> > > > are?
> > > >
> > > > Or are you sure that https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/releases are 
> > > > developer uploaded archives? It looks like gitlab creates them 
> > > > automatically:
> > > > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/releases/
> > > > like github does with tag archives.
> > > >
> > >
> > > while it fixes the issue it is trying to fix, it would be better to
> > > fix the non-deterministic archive issue as well while here, I dont
> > > know if gitlab's archiving is reproducible perhaps a question for
> > > gitlab, but it would be ok to switch to using git fetcher to avoid
> > > that suspicion. What do you think?
> >
> > I've posted the question, so we get an answer for all the other gitlab
> > projects that are out there:
> > https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-release-tarball-stability/41888
> >
> > Let's see what the answer is.
> 
> So we have an initial answer:
> https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-release-tarball-stability/41888/3?u=diegorondini
> 
> The summary is: tarballs can be regenerated, but they are regenerated
> identical by git archive according to the manual.
> The use of git archive in the source code is not guaranteed in the
> future as at the moment there is no immutability test in the gitaly
> service.
> 
> Martin, Khem, what do you suggest to do?

I would you git fetcher to be safe, like we already do for github
archives.

Extending the QA check to cover gitlab would be for bonus points :).

Thanks
> 
> Regards,
> Diego Rondini
> Sr. Embedded Engineer
> 
> Kynetics
> www.kynetics.com

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