[arch-projects] [PATCH] [devtools] makechrootpkg: load COMPRESS* vars from makepkg.conf

[Levente Polyak]

On March 18, 2019 10:56:34 AM GMT+01:00, Maxim Baz via arch-projects <arch-projects at archlinux.org> wrote:
>I did see an earlier patch proposing the same, which was rejected
>because it might break delta packages [1].
>However, someone mentioned that pacman is dropping support for delta
>packages altogether [2] referring to a removal commit in pacman repo
>[3], so I wanted to bring this up again :)
>
>I'm creating a new thread because according to my tests the earlier
>patch [1] is incomplete.
>
>
>1:
>https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2017-May/004574.html
>2: https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/issues/547
>3:
>https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=9adb0d5b37df7ca668e23877e85431dabeea005e
>
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Messing with this in devtools used for building official repo packages kills reproducible builds when not agreed on very specific flags and tools to compress.
This is not a good idea to do and we won't kill reproducibility by going wild west.