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Re: [Bug-cpio] [PATCH] Add option "--reproducible" for reproducible arch
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-cpio] [PATCH] Add option "--reproducible" for reproducible archives |
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Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:34:41 +0100 |
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On Thursday 06 of November 2014 22:32:15 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > The latest stable version has been released in 2011.
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> Indeed. There are plenty of changes in my local tree which I'm going to
> release before the Christmas
That is perfect, thanks!
> > The only possible way to keep cpio alive would be to fork it as a Red
> > Hat project, as long as our package management still needs it.
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> That depends pretty well on what "alive" means for you. For what it's
> worth, so far our cooperation with RH maintainers was quite positive
Yep, as part of RH cpio/tar maintenance team, I can confirm that! And
actually I am not aware of any RH fork of GNU cpio :), not even idea.
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As the $Subject is still the same.. I haven't done a review of this patch
TBH, but the inode numbers are a real problem (I tend to say a bug) of GNU
cpio.
Having a possibility to deal with that (even with option) does not sound
as a bad idea. If I remember correctly, scpio (or other alternative cpio
implementation) also constructs inode numbers as an artificial sequence by
default.
Pavel