From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on sa.int.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Message-ID: <494E1D5A.30107@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:41:30 +0300 From: Alexey Gladkov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081202 Thunderbird/2.0.0.18 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gilles Espinasse References: <0df801c95d71$d650ffd0$f9b5a8c0@pii350> In-Reply-To: <0df801c95d71$d650ffd0$f9b5a8c0@pii350> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kbd Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd : suggestion to remove gzip timestamp from compressed consolefonts X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10b3 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:42:35 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: 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