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‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

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Message #25 received at 45962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’
 includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:52:35 +0100

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hey Ludo!

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
> I can think of two possibilities, then: (1) apply the patch in a phase
> rather than via the ‘patches’ field, and (2) arrange so that
> ‘patch-and-repack’ does not compress the patched code or compresses it
> with the bootstrap gzip.

Oh, that would be nice: we could remove all these clumsy manual patching
stages.  Also, we may be able to remove XZ from the bootstrap chain, if
no XZ-repackaging happens and only build a final version.

> My understanding is that #2 may be doable now thanks to Maxim’s recent
> changes.  I’ll take a look!

Great!
Greetings,
Janneke

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