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From: ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: github tarballs problematic?
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 20:35:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608203528.rvp4lhdqu463ns2x@abyayala> (raw)

I've just come across this post via https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/861
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDZ2WKMTOE6J2M4K7PF5OWSSC4BAX2SH/

quote in almost full:

today, I've accidentally attested there are no stability guarantees with the on-demand archives from common git hosting sites when preparing a new pacemaker update, redownloading "spectool -s 0 pacemaker.spec" of the original (-0.1.rc1, from 2 weeks ago) spec and comparing the hashes, which (surprisingly to me) didn't match (they were at any similar test in the past). Then I looked at the adiff output:
...
 diff -ru Unpack-2241/pacemaker-Pacemaker-1.1.17-rc1/configure.ac
Unpack-6255/pacemaker-Pacemaker-1.1.17-rc1/configure.ac
 --- Unpack-2241/pacemaker-Pacemaker-1.1.17-rc1/configure.ac2017-05-09 00:55:15.000000000
+0200
 +++ Unpack-6255/pacemaker-Pacemaker-1.1.17-rc1/configure.ac2017-05-09 00:55:15.000000000
+0200
 @@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@
  AC_PATH_PROGS(GIT, git false)
  AC_MSG_CHECKING(build version)
  
 -BUILD_VERSION=0459f40
 +BUILD_VERSION=0459f40958
  if test  != ":%h$"; then
     AC_MSG_RESULT(archive hash: ) 
for configure.ac that indeed has export-subst git attribute set and the change itself arises from "$Format:%h$" substitution. This likely means GitHub was internally updated to use equivalent of git 2.11 feature of abbreviation length autoscaling within last 14 days. Hope this will be useful for some (e.g. fedora-review tool has a check to redownload and diff sources against SRPM content, IIRC).
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ng0
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2017-06-08 20:35 ng0 [this message]
2017-06-09 13:53 ` github tarballs problematic? Ludovic Courtès

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