Re: Bypassing mentors http/ftp area durng sponsorship (was: Re: Introducing spurious revisions ... )

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* George Danchev [Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:11:46 +0200]:

> cp orig.tar.gz from sid/ 
> * yes, I know of pristine-tar, but there is no way for it to preserve the 
> timestamps inside the tarball, i.e. hashsums will not much with these on the 
> upstream site, unless I'm awfully mistaken) 

(This is a bit off-topic on this thread, but pristine-tar is precisely
about that: giving you the extra bits needed to ensure that the
reconstructed tarball will be bit-by-bit identical to the original one.)

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