Re: Normaliser function for distfiles
Rich Freeman <[email protected]> Tue, 17 May 2022 08:14:57 -0400
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On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 1:37 PM Markus Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > Wouldn't a simpler solution be to just have an ebuild setting that tells the package manager to not check the timestamp? -- Rich