Re: jquery debate with upstrea

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 18:37 -0300 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor
> Pérez Meyer:
> > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will
> > > two developers, who both use uscan to get the original tarball for the
> > > same version and with the same File-Excluded get identical results?
> > 
> > IIRC, it uses an invocation of find to do the job, so I guess the answer is 
> > yes.
> 
> it sounded be too good to be true:
> 
> $ rm ../*tar.gz && uscan --download && md5sum ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz 
> haskell-ekg: Newer version (0.3.1.4) available on remote site:
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ekg-0.3.1.4/ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>   (local version is 0.3.1.3)
> haskell-ekg: Successfully downloaded updated package ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>     and removed files from it in haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> d6af2e99727cfb6abca56d1c5a4d1e92  ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> $ rm ../*tar.gz && uscan --download && md5sum ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz 
> haskell-ekg: Newer version (0.3.1.4) available on remote site:
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ekg-0.3.1.4/ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>   (local version is 0.3.1.3)
> haskell-ekg: Successfully downloaded updated package ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>     and removed files from it in haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> 9bd7134bb56a093b5f61ba7b710af826  ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> 
> This would be quite annoying in my usual workflow.

I guess it just unpacks, removes and repacks. Which also means it would
be quite annoying in my own workflow which involves unpacking/repacking
700MB. The script I'm using now does the filtering on the tar stream
itself, without actually unpacking. (it's also able to do it while
downloading)

Mike