On 13.06.2018 15:40, Joris Meys wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Uwe Ligges
<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
<mailto:lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
When CRAN repacks and changes the DESCRIPTION file, the checksums
change, of course.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Dear Uwe,
I understood that from the previous issue. In this case however, none of
the files -including the DESCRIPTION file- were changed. Am I right in
suspecting that a package is repacked when moved to the archive?
No, we do not repack generally then. Perhaps the package got orphaned?
Which package / tarball were you talking about? I can take a look why
that one was changed and inspect why the checksum changed.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
I
suspect that the tool used to repack the package is using gzip, and it
is possible to repack without adding a timestamp as explained here :
https://serverfault.com/questions/110208/different-md5sums-for-same-tar-contents
I can explain the different checksums when some things are changed to
our HPC sysadmins, but they have -understandibly- difficulties with
checksums changing for released source tarballs. Is it possible to adapt
the archiving so that at least for identical tarballs the md5 sums
remain the same? Or if you have other suggestions to deal with this
without having to change hardcoded checksums in the easybuild repos,
that would be very welcome too.
Cheers
Joris
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