documenting problems with the tarball generation process.

[monkeysphere.git] / website / bugs / make-tarball-is-not-idempotent.mdwn

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+[[ meta title="make tarball is not idempotent" ]]
+
+The current monkeysphere Makefile has a "tarball" target, which
+produces the "upstream tarball".  Unfortunately, it is not idempotent.
+That is, if you run it twice in a row (without changing any other
+source), the second .orig.tar.gz file is bytewise different from the
+first.
+
+We should fix this so that the tarball generated is the same at least
+as long as no local file has been touched.
+
+--dkg