[2015-07-18 15:13:43 -0700] Anatol Pomozov: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Instead I suggest we use the full commit hash. In the example above, > > that'd become something like: > > > > _commit=9a50ce20ef60263a6c88c29470ce761fcc424f2d > > source=("git://github.com/systemd/systemd.git#commit=$_commit") > > md5sums=('SKIP') > > Would it be better to improve *sums=() function to work with > directories? This will also help svn/hg based packages. > > A simple solution is to tar whole directory and then calculate the checksum: > > tar -c $DIR | md5sum
This involves file attributes, so it seems the md5sum would change any time you do a new `git clone` even if no actual content has changed. Also I think the commit hash is an intrinsically better value because it is explicitly published by upstream. Just as checksums are (or should be) published next to release tarballs. Cheers. -- Gaetan
