From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#51234: emacs.pdmp file name (--fingerprint) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:31:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83y26qecqd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20211016070712.dlt3fygxl34mp5op@yt.nih.at> <871r4in5ka.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27166"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 51234@debbugs.gnu.org, tk@giga.or.at To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 18 14:32:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRof-0006ml-9L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:32:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRoe-0006n6-C1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRoA-0006mi-Gd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRoA-0000UE-3F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRo9-0005SR-SB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:32:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 51234 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 51234-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B51234.163456028020919 (code B ref 51234); Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 51234) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Oct 2021 12:31:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46171 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRnT-0005RL-Q5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58738) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRnS-0005R7-LP for 51234@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRnM-0005Me-Ek; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4230 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mcRnA-0005fZ-Vy; Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:31:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871r4in5ka.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:41:09 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:217478 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:41:09 +0200 > Cc: 51234@debbugs.gnu.org > > Thomas Klausner writes: > > > I'm sending this mail because this filename causes problems for > > packagers who prefer maintaining static file lists to make sure > > exactly a known list of files is installed by a program. > > If you rename the file to "emacs.pdmp", Emacs will still find it, but I > guess this isn't documented. We could also add a configure option to do > this renaming automatically, I guess? > > Anybody got an opinion here? Me, I wonder how will those distros code with the *.eln files, which also include hashes that aren't known in advance. Solving the issue with the pdumper file will still leave this other one, with many more files. So perhaps the distros will just have to adapt?