From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Zipped Python .egg-files Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20160925221404.GA11969@jasmine> References: <87a8evof9p.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boHgk-0002OT-Ef for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boHgg-0004MK-45 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:21 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boHge-0004Hk-P5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:14:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8evof9p.fsf@ike.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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" To: Marius Bakke Cc: Guix-devel On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:12:18PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Hartmut Goebel writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I just packaged a Python package and found was generating a zipped > > .egg-file - which is not that bad, since this saved space. > > > > But: This zip-file does include recent time-stamps. > > > > I assume this is wrong, isn't it? Can somebody more skilled than me > > please implement something like "strip-jar-timestamps" > > (ant-build-system) for .egg-files?! Thanks. Or should I file a > > bug-report for this? > > There is a related bug for this: > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20765 As that bug report points out, the primary problem with compressed eggs is that any store references in the compressed egg are not detected at build-time, and are thus subject to garbage collection, which breaks the packaged software when it happens.