Hi Peter, On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > Historically the "uncompress / recompress / get original compressed > file" process has been noticeably more reliable with bzip2 than gzip. > Probably because there is only one canonical bzip2 implementation, > whereas there are quite a few implementations of the gzip algorithm, > and they will not necessarily all produce exactly the same compressed > output. gzip also has tuning flags such as --rsyncable (may still be > Debian-specific, I'm not sure) which bzip2 does not.
Thanks for the explanation. > Thus if you want to only download one file, and check the checksum of > both, you should download the .gz and recompress it to .bz2, not vice > versa. I never used to do this in the past. I got the .tar.gz from .bz2 as mentioned here - http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing.html#tarball-signing - May be we need to rev the piece of text in that link. Thank You. -- Senthil Kumaran S http://www.stylesen.org/ http://www.sasenthilkumaran.com/
