Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

>>>>> " " == Andrew Lenharth <adl@cs.washington.edu> writes:

     > What is better and easier is to ensure that the compression is
     > deturministic (gzip by default is not, bzip2 seems to be), so
     > that rsync can decompress, rsync, compress, and get the exact
     > file back on the other side.

gzip encodes timestamps, which makes identical files seem to be
different when compressed.

Given the same file with the same timestamp, gzip should allways
generate an equal file.

Of cause that also depends on the options used.

MfG
        Goswin