On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
And also, the md5sum of the gzipped archive made from the original bzipped archive can vary from conversion to conversion unless the option ``--no-name'' is passed to gzip.
We're dangerously digressing into pristine-tar's domain here. [0] From: Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#560170: a bit of digging Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:07:15 -0500
Regarding modification times, compression levels, FNAME, and OS types, these are all handled by pristine-gz; it records that info and passes it to zgz when recreating the gz file.
The gzip format [1] is a can of worms for recreational purposes. (Pun intended, sorry.)
Cheers, lacos [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560170#35 [1] http://www.gzip.org/format.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.lnx.4.64.1003010230150.21...@login01.caesar.elte.hu
