Re: Generated patches change over time

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

>>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because
>>they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length
>>of commit hash prefixes, etc.)  It’s probably worse than tarballs
>>generated by Git hosting services.
>>
>>So we should probably work towards using local copies of patches,
>>unless
>>we find that the generated patches do not include any variable bits.
>>
>
> Maybe we could pass the patches through some sanitizer to strip any metadata? 
> I guess the content itself shouldn't change?

We can’t really do that, or the downloads would no longer be
fixed-output derivations and thus we wouldn’t be solving the problem.

Ludo’.