Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: I started hacking on something like this in December, but quickly got bored. Here's what I did: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/stefanor/repack-source.git Interested? While it sounds interesting I think after having

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-14 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Andreas (2012.01.13_23:07:52_+0200) I wonder whether we should rather implement a fool proof solution which can be simply used in get-orig-source targets (and as well in uscan). I started hacking on something like this in December, but quickly got bored. Here's what I did:

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-14 Thread Peter Miller
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 10:41 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: I was also trying to solve the timestamp problem, so that +dfsg / +ds repacks could be done reproduceably. Have you looked at Tardy? http://tardy.sf.net/ It has numerous filters. -- Peter Miller peter.miller@gmail.com -- To

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:58:50PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : However you generate the .orig.tar.gz file, you can then manage it with pristine-tar, at least if you're using a VCS that pristine-tar supports. The process when you repack upstream is really the same as when you just download

Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the unpacked tarball are featuring his UID/GID. I simply looked into the uscan source how it is be done there and found: GZIP=-9 tar --owner=root --group=root

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the unpacked tarball are featuring his UID/GID. Do we care? Most upstream distribution tarballs are likewise going to

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 22:07 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the unpacked tarball are featuring his UID/GID. I simply looked into the uscan source how it is be done

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:12:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Do we care? Most upstream distribution tarballs are likewise going to feature random UIDs and GIDs in the tarball because that's what you get from tar if you don't take any special precautions. I admit that the issue might not be

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:18:53PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 22:07 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the unpacked tarball are featuring his

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: I admit that the issue might not be very important but I personally like reproducible results (in the sense of same MD5sums). At least it can not harm even if I admit that upstream does not care - in some points we are better than upstream. So why not