Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Nicolas Joseph <nicolas.joseph@valaide.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I try to build a package for i386 and amd64. I cross-build the i386 package with
> the recommendation of the FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq#line-95 but
> independent architecture packages (common.dev, dev.dev and debian.tar.gz) are
> a different size.
>
> The content is the same, it's propably the compression, better on i386.
>
> Here the content of the .change file:
>
>  * for amd64
> Files:
>  a48bee53376b85ccc39a1d9b83d6d2d3 913 devel optional valide_0.7.0-1.dsc
>  13c01d12262341f3a5e5bf671e5bb33a 1496411 devel optional
> valide_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz
>  5549ed7846ab9b8deb885d4b3d21cae7 5055 devel optional
> valide_0.7.0-1.debian.tar.gz
>  d2e0fc0686f167cec0143611d81be0d4 641460 devel optional valide_0.7.0-1_amd64.deb
>  146b7a571e4c9d1c428c8a62354670c9 253824 devel optional
> valide-common_0.7.0-1_all.deb
>  2844a0b72a69306bb8cf8225401dae42 49228 devel optional
> valide-dev_0.7.0-1_all.deb
>  866cd83f20fced4ea4a796fab6ec2ab1 6544620 debug extra
> valide-dbg_0.7.0-1_amd64.deb
>
>  * for i386
> Files:
>  e7f66dce3107b0c337d1837607133820 913 devel optional valide_0.7.0-1.dsc
>  13c01d12262341f3a5e5bf671e5bb33a 1496411 devel optional
> valide_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz
>  37861bf8bb9d52e089f7fe68614cb1e6 5054 devel optional
> valide_0.7.0-1.debian.tar.gz
>  86c0106ebb461a328cf2bd3dde72b3f9 551350 devel optional valide_0.7.0-1_i386.deb
>  0a1c4d48123986d472e60e61c6d12818 253840 devel optional
> valide-common_0.7.0-1_all.deb
>  8a883165f0fe37e03258c9ff46f8dda1 49234 devel optional
> valide-dev_0.7.0-1_all.deb
>  832ae60a005d5276c5aa0ab21da861ba 6547974 debug extra
> valide-dbg_0.7.0-1_i386.deb
>
>
> Have you an idea?
>
> Thank's in advance.

You are talking about a few bytes. You probably just got lucky on i386
and got timestamps that compress better.

MfG
        Goswin