Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Normaliser function for distfiles
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 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Normaliser function for distfiles
On 5/16/22 10:37, 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. Thanks in advance Markus The only usable hook that we currently have for this is FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMCOMMAND in make.conf. You can replace them with a script that does the normal thing and then sets the timestamp. The default values are found in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals. -- Thanks, Zac OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-portage-dev] Normaliser function for distfiles
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. Thanks in advance Markus -- For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much---the wheel, New York, wars and so on---while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man---for precisely the same reasons. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.)
