Hi, On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 05:25:32PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > .gz is built with "make distcheck", .xz right after from the same > > tree with "make dist-xz". > > > > What differs? > > The check sum of both extracted tarballs, not really their content.
Ah. Yeah, that's one of the drawbacks of building two independent
tarballs - timestamps in the tar header (IIRC), so the end result always
differs in a few bytes.
> I suggest to create .xz from .gz instead of building another tarball. That
> way the extracted tarballs from .gz and .xz share the same checksum ->
> less confusion in case something goes wrong - as it did with 2.4.2 and
> now.
David, you're listening? Should be an easy-enough change from what
we have now... ("gunzip <...tar.gz | xz >...tar.xz" or however you
do xz balls) :-)
gert
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