Re: create orig.tar.gz
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
And also, the md5sum of the gzipped archive made from the original
bzipped archive can vary from conversion to conversion unless the option
``--no-name'' is passed to gzip.
We're dangerously digressing into pristine-tar's domain here. [0]
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#560170: a bit of digging
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:07:15 -0500
Regarding modification times, compression levels, FNAME, and OS types,
these are all handled by pristine-gz; it records that info and passes it
to zgz when recreating the gz file.
The gzip format [1] is a can of worms for recreational purposes. (Pun
intended, sorry.)
Cheers,
lacos
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560170#35
[1] http://www.gzip.org/format.txt
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