On 2017-02-09 10:09:16 [+0100], Dominic Sacré wrote:

Hi,

Hi,

I noticed that recently the compressed RT patches (.patch.gz) at
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt started changing.
The actual content of the patches seems to remain unchanged, but it
looks like the gzipped files are being regenerated, resulting in
different checksums.

Can you tell me which file in which folder changed?
Plus I suggest to use
 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt
which is mostly the same content but should lower the load on the
"origin" servers.

This is a problem for example for OpenEmbedded-based projects, which use
MD5 and SHA256 checksums (basically hardcoded into Bitbake recipes) to
verify the integrity of files being downloaded.

I see. You should be able to verify the uncompressed patch against a gpg
key. However I guess this is not how OpenEmbedded works.

Does someone know why this is happening?

So if you tell me which file changed I will ask around and let you know.

Thanks,

Dominic

Sebastian