On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:16 -0700 Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So it seems that with the currently shipping versions of gzip (I tried > both "stable/updates" and "testing"), there is actually no way to > exactly replicate the compression produced by the standard package > build system. > > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically > linked against zlib1g or something like it. So the question is, how > can the exact compression algorithm used by dpkg-deb be made available > for another piece of software? Is it something that's well-specified, > or is it liable to change at any moment? It turns out that the zlib1g-dev package contains a program called "minigzip" in source form. This is what's needed; "minigzip -9" reproduces exactly the compression used by dpkg-deb, unlike regular gzip. -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
