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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> schrieb:
>
>> Or if they generate the tarball on-the-fly with no caching, which
>> results in differing timestamps each time. Hence, each time you fetch
>> it, you get a tarball with a different hash.
>
> Does portage check the timestamps ?
>

I think you need to sit down and understand how tarballs are made,
what they contain, and what a "hash" means, and how it's calculated.


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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team