From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:15:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100627121559.5ba8392a@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100627110858.GF23460@nibiru.local>
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:08:58 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > > Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet.
> > > But: true, it might change between tar versions.
> >
> > The main offender is the compression program, not tar.
>
> hmm, I'm exclusively using bzip2 and never had these problems
> yet. maybe it depends on the compressor type.
Your problem is that you are thinking in terms of "well I've not seen
it break", not "I can prove that it will always work".
You may find the "Compressed output may vary" section of "man 1 xz" to
be useful.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 20:17 [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-25 20:28 ` Alistair Bush
2010-06-26 18:56 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-25 21:00 ` Krzysztof Pawlik
2010-06-26 18:51 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 19:21 ` Krzysztof Pawlik
2010-06-26 19:46 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 19:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-26 20:08 ` Krzysztof Pawlik
2010-06-26 20:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 20:09 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 20:18 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-27 10:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 10:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-27 11:08 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 11:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-06-27 18:33 ` Brian Harring
2010-06-27 18:48 ` Patrick Lauer
2010-08-17 17:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-18 4:15 ` Jacob Godserv
2010-08-18 19:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 20:33 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-06-27 10:35 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 20:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-06-27 5:48 ` Hans de Graaff
2010-06-25 22:24 ` Petteri Räty
2010-06-26 19:39 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 19:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-26 19:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-26 20:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-27 5:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 10:47 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 11:56 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 12:23 ` Harald van Dijk
2010-06-27 12:25 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 12:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-27 14:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 17:14 ` Harald van Dijk
2010-06-27 17:48 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 18:10 ` dev-random
2010-06-27 18:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 6:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergei Trofimovich
2010-06-27 10:52 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 11:28 ` Richard Freeman
2010-06-26 19:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-06-27 8:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rémi Cardona
2010-06-27 11:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 12:13 ` Patrick Lauer
2010-06-27 12:22 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-06-27 12:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-06-27 16:54 ` Rémi Cardona
2010-06-28 10:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
[not found] ` <201006252338.51889.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
2010-08-17 21:05 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] " Enrico Weigelt
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