From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSpqO-0000aH-Dj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:16:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33477E0A6C; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44AEE0A63 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so2148721wwb.40 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:16:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=vtCkErDKPFIr2mgbAUVQnidARI8l1+mxqHl65XKXMrQ=; b=DuKafV0n4EsK2/xvBeTmiCyD4bQ8Nuqdflu3PQlP4HjAMel40fH2nmGyEMHTWiAZrt BhQS2r6BN9gRLJrZKhfSbV70dt39A/siO1b9xUPzfMI2mlYLiew3hAANSQ4vxxgwnxk+ 4GeAW1c61mIjnz+xDvQkBOxvfb3jKiTZy62CA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=LTPgdVZkZaL/WNLc+1HDwp/gpWo+3onOT/pYqxZewPbLxm8haUmHS6tjSINHeMQqTu aXRJwmjxFzeR7UiYBHx/7ooIFKtTQhj7HteoRL1StICbIsOVpko5XYsWlEkLpfGM57lO hmpHNT8iNo7N95dGvBtVRH8RknbYlcUUlViJs= Received: by 10.227.141.137 with SMTP id m9mr2600333wbu.202.1277637364871; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone ([92.16.76.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n31sm58934204wba.21.2010.06.27.04.16.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:15:59 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Message-ID: <20100627121559.5ba8392a@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20100627110858.GF23460@nibiru.local> References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <4C2518FB.9090800@gentoo.org> <20100626185104.GB4789@nibiru.local> <4C265345.6060102@gentoo.org> <20100626194639.GE4789@nibiru.local> <20100626205921.4e2a0b9e@snowcone> <20100626200909.GG4789@nibiru.local> <20100626211816.7b4a13dc@snowcone> <20100627103443.GA23460@nibiru.local> <20100627114558.3e2d652d@snowcone> <20100627110858.GF23460@nibiru.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/74qxerGSlmE6S0Y8jbfK2m+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 167f8fb7-bb36-4f21-bf25-fb01cdfd4876 X-Archives-Hash: 81c71b5534f223e7fc1b2af724eb072f --Sig_/74qxerGSlmE6S0Y8jbfK2m+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:08:58 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet. > > > But: true, it might change between tar versions. > >=20 > > The main offender is the compression program, not tar. >=20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/74qxerGSlmE6S0Y8jbfK2m+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwnMvEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEu2gCfX25bcfAu2y+cj2R9bQufHh5o qFAAn1hbsXt3usmirC5rHysJeB6xnd5X =139k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/74qxerGSlmE6S0Y8jbfK2m+--