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

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

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

> Maybe but debarchiver reject my upload because the file is already added and has
> a different md5 sum.
>
> how do you do for real repositories?
>
> 2010/5/16 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

Build the package with -s, -sa or -b on amd64 and with -B on i386. That
way the i386 build will only add the i386 specific packages and not
source or architecture independent packages.

MfG
        Goswin