Re: git-buildpackage: can it recreate the orig.tar.gz without the pristine-tar?
Miguel Telleria de Esteban <miguel@mtelleria.com> writes:
> * In a pure git storage scenario, pristine-tar doesn't add much
> benefit since we can always generate an orig.tar.gz from an upstream
> tag and obtain the same result...
> ... or maybe subsequent git-buildpackage invocations may generate
> md5sum different .orig.tar.gz?? I guess not (although I will check).
Every time you generate an *.orig.tar.gz file from Git (or, for that
matter, via any other mechanism), it will be different. The output of tar
is not stable. If you want to reproducibly generate the *.orig.tar.gz
file from your Git repository, you *have* to use pristine-tar, no matter
how the original *.orig.tar.gz file is derived. Otherwise, you will need
to store the *.orig.tar.gz files separately or redownload them from Debian
when preparing subsequent Debian patch releases, or DAK will not accept
your new uploads.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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