Hi Mladen,

Mladen Turk wrote:

> On 03/30/2013 11:59 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 18:48, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 30 March 2013 20:50, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/30/2013 09:06 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the manifest of the commons-daemon-1.0.15.jar contains a strange
>>>>>> entry:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =========== %< =============
>>>>>> Implementation-Build: UNKNOWN_BRANCH@r??????; 2013-03-28
>>>>>> 13:53:43+0100 =========== %< =============
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This contains normally the subversion number. Did you built the
>>>>>> release from a checkout? It looks more like an export.
>>>> Sure I did. As always (seems the same trash is in previous versions)
>>>> I always build from export as the user would from .tar.gz
>>>
>>> It works OK if you build from a checkout (can be read-only).
>>>
>>>
>>>> Not sure what would be the reason to have that (SVN) info in the
>>>> manifest at the first place.
>>>
>>> It shows that the build was done from the relevant tag.
>>
>> I thought the Commons process was clear that building from the tag was
>> the only way to go because it is the tag we vote on.
>>
> 
> This procedure must be fixed. There are vendors out there that
> produce .jar files without using SVN, but rather our distribution
> artefacts. Does it mean that our distribution artefacts are invalid !?

No, but what we release into the Maven repository is unique. Even if some 
rebuilds the jars, the MD5/SHA1-hashes will be always different, simply 
because the manifest also includes build time, name of the current user, OS, 
...

- Jörg


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