From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Cc: kbd <kbd@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd : suggestion to remove gzip timestamp from compressed consolefonts
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:41:30 +0300
Message-ID: <494E1D5A.30107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0df801c95d71$d650ffd0$f9b5a8c0@pii350>
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> As gzip is used on kbd with MYGZIP = gzip -f -9 to compress consolefonts,
> this include the timestamp (and filename) in each compressed file.
> The result is that two compilations of kbd package at a different time
> produce consolefonts .gz files with different md5.
>
> To help paranoid to sleep and because this is simplier to track changes when
> there is reallly changes, that's possible to remove gzip timestamp adding -n
> option to gzip.
> So consolefonts files are a few bit smaller and keep the same md5 across
> rebuild.
> Even the oldest gzip version I find (gzip-1.2.4 dated from 1993) support -n
> option.
Good catch! I will apply it.
--
Rgrds, legion
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