Re: RFR: lbzip2-0.18-1

[ERSEK Laszlo <lacos@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:

> > gzip -dc lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz | bzip2 -9 - > lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2
> > touch -r lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.gz lbzip2_0.18.orig.tar.bz2
>
> Just to understand it better, are both the gz and bz2 tarballs necessary for 
> upload? If not, a gunzip / bzip2 sequence might suffice, since they both 
> preserve mtime.

... although the version you've suggested is clearly more elegant, 
overlapping gunzip with bzip2, and involving no temporary uncompressed 
file.

(sorry for the self-followup)

Cheers,
lacos