Dear Uwe, Thank you for willing to take a look. In the report it was about the following tarballs :
pkgmaker_0.22.tar.gz rngtools_1.2.4.tar.gz RcppProgress_0.4.tar.gz Our sysadmin tried diff -ru, but couldn't find any difference in the text files. Cheers Joris On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote: > > > 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 >> >> -- >> Joris Meys >> Statistical consultant >> >> Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling >> Ghent University >> Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+ >> Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> tel: +32 (0)9 264 61 79 >> ----------- >> Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 >> http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php >> > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> tel: +32 (0)9 264 61 79 ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
