New releases for bugfixes

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 12:51 PM samuel ammonius <sfammonius at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Bug fixes don't change the entire package, only the executable, so
> why can't apps just be programmed to update themselves? There
> could be precompiled binaries stored on the git repos of each project
> for a few CPU architectures, or maybe the app could even recompile
> itself inside /tmp since most systems KDE runs on come with a compiler
> by default (and macros could also be stored so that apps have the
> same configuration throughout updates).
>

That depends entirely on whether the fix was in the executable or a library
that it links to. If a library we can't be
updating libraries willy nilly on user devices. Plus think about how it was
built, which use flags in gentoo, which
compile flags, etc. Which distribution specific patches were applied. Once
you take all that into account there are many
many ways to build kde applications.

>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 11:58 AM Heiko Becker <heiko.becker at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:59:43 CEST, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>> > From the git-archive manual page:
>> >
>> > «git archive behaves differently when given a tree ID versus
>> > when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current
>> > time is used as the modification time of each file in the
>> > archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the
>> > referenced commit object is used instead. Additionally the
>> > commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header if the tar
>> > format is used; it can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id.
>> > In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.»
>>
>> Before anybody tries that *now*, at least for Gear the tarballs are
>> currently created with git archive --remote=kde:$repo $branch ..
>> So they currently won't have that information.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Heiko
>>
>>
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