On 08/02/2018 01:31 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
I know that it does, but patching hundreds of packages [1] (including
ones still to be created) doing
tar -czf $file
to do instead
tar -c | gzip -n > $file
This would be something that tar could and should address, I'd think.
Is there a goo
On 2018-08-02 08:47, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
>> This allows for reproducible output of
>> echo foo | gzip | md5sum
>
> gzip -n already does that, so we don't need to change the gzip source
> code to get reproducible output.
I know that it does, but patching hundreds of p
Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
This allows for reproducible output of
echo foo | gzip | md5sum
gzip -n already does that, so we don't need to change the gzip source code to
get reproducible output.
This allows for reproducible output of
echo foo | gzip | md5sum
tar -cz -H ustar SOMEFILE | md5sum
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
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diff --git a/gzip.c b/gzip.c
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