From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QafoL-0000Zh-Tx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:15:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3162B1C036; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de (smtprelay04.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E541D1C036 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.7.97] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtprelay04.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Qafo1-0007pr-0y for gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:14:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4E06A41E.6000705@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:14:38 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110526 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc? References: <4E03DD4C.7050005@gentoo.org> <1308899274.624.67.camel@tablet> <4E04C66B.4010302@gentoo.org> <4E061FD0.4050009@gentoo.org> <4E069B1F.8040409@gentoo.org> <20110626024929.GA6506@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20110626024929.GA6506@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: sping-gentoo@binera.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1be527cd27fe70994ae1410441e3562f On 06/26/2011 04:49 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > No, we can't have the manpage pre-rendered in the tarball, because that > makes the tarball different every time it is created since the > date/timestamps in the archive will be different. In other words, it is > not possible for anyone to ever reproduce the exact same tarball that we > produce. The varience in timestamp has been no problem for other projects including genkernel. If all that varies is the time stamp and it matters to you, it would be easy to add a section to the Makefile setting the timestamp to a hardcoded value. > I see two ways around this: We can either make asciidoc a build time > dependency so that the user can use something like "make manpage" to > generate the manpage That adds quite some load on indirect dependencies for more or less nothing, as seen with Matt earlier. > or we can go back to the manpage that is in the git > repository. Do I have to list reasons against this option? Best, Sebastian