On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 21:41:43 -0400
Doug Torrance <dtorra...@piedmont.edu> wrote:

> On 04/03/2016 06:05 PM, Kei Yamashita wrote:
> > Hopefully this is the right mailing list for my request. I want to
> > package wmbattery (and other dockapps) for GNU Guix. I noticed when
> > downloading the source code for wmbattery from
> > http://windowmaker.org/dockapps/?name=wmbattery
> > that the tarball is generated on request, which changes the
> > checksum of the file each time it is downloaded. GNU Guix requires
> > each package to have a checksum to check the source code download
> > against, so this is a bit problematic. Is there a way that this
> > might be changed? If not, is there another place I can get the
> > dockapps from?  
> 
> It's not an ideal situation, but that's the best we've come up with
> for now.
> 
> The solution that Gentoo and Debian both use is to download the
> tarball once and host it elsewhere for reproducible builds, e.g.,
> [1,2]
> 
> [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~voyageur/distfiles/wmbattery-2.50.tar.gz
> [2] 
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmbattery/wmbattery_2.50.orig.tar.gz

We resolved the issue by pulling from the Debian link you provided.
Thanks for your help!


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