[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.

[Robin Broda]

On 2/19/19 4:19 PM, Tinu Weber wrote:
> Author of remakepkg here. I think that adding such functionality to
> pacman would be a bit... backwards.
> 

> 
>> remakepkg invalidates .BUILDINFO and breaks reproducible builds as far as i can tell.
> 
> The semantics of .BUILDINFO in the context of remakepkg were unclear to
> me, so I chose to simply ignore it. Reproducible builds were not taken
> into account, so it's indeed very likely that it breaks that.

You could hotpatch it, but that's dirty. :P


> In the end, remakepkg is a hack. But the underlying concept itself is
> already a hack, so I'm not feeling too bad, to be honest :-)
> 
> (that being said, I'm obviously open for discussing suggestions)

I'm sure it's useful, but as you acknowledged yourself
it's kinda unfit for pacman/makepkg inclusion.

I don't have an issue with the tool itself as far as this discussion goes :)

> 
> Best,
> Tinu
> 

-- 
Rob (coderobe)

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