From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve ant-build-system. Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:23:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aleRw-0004Hg-W0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:23:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aleRr-00056i-9C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:23:56 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:50759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aleRq-00056G-Ut for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:23:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEC83811C9 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:23:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uzJoWz3qohel for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:23:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from HTCATWO.mdc-berlin.net (puck.citx.mdc-berlin.de [141.80.36.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:23:43 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > our ant-build-system currently throws away the jar manifest, because it > was difficult to control its timestamp. Without a manifest many jars > cannot be used, though. Oops! > > The manifest and the directory it is in always get the current time, > which is very annoying. Since controlling the timestamp is not possibl= e > with =E2=80=9Cjar=E2=80=9D, this patch repacks the jar archive with =E2= =80=9Czip=E2=80=9D. The only > thing we need to take care of is to ensure that the manifest file > appears first. > > With these changes the jars actually work properly. > > Thanks to Roel for reporting these issues to me privately and assisting > in debugging all of this! I pushed these commits as 9941e0812eca a couple of hours ago. ~~ Ricardo