Dear Uwe, sorry to bother you again with it, but I was wondering if you had some more idea about what happened. I just received another one, this time about mgcv_1.8-23.tar.gz. It goes beyond my understanding as to why the MD5 sums would change without any change to the package. Is there anything I can check at this side to make it easier for you?
Cheers Joris On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Joris Meys <joris.m...@ugent.be> wrote: > 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-f >>> or-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+G >>> ent,%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 > -- 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
