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 1OSwu2-0000qx-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:48:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 118B8E0DD3; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dev.gentooexperimental.org (dev.gentooexperimental.org [91.191.147.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9E6E09F2 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (dslb-084-058-175-127.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.175.127]) by dev.gentooexperimental.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 881FD64646 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:48:15 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) Message-ID: <4C279CEE.80906@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:48:14 +0200 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100626 Thunderbird/3.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages References: <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> <20100627183306.GA9990@hrair> In-Reply-To: <20100627183306.GA9990@hrair> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb62d716-2101-4c60-947d-0d9bf072f5a4 X-Archives-Hash: 74be9c4d03bb57773726acb9ee746a66 On 06/27/10 20:33, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: >> >>>> 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. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0025.html#the-problem-in-detail > > Note also that bzip2 had another change in output after that > release- my memory is failing me a bit, but it was roughly a > a reduction of their hash size to fix a CVE- either way, same thing, > differing output. Are you thinking about "bzip2 version 1.0.2 worked with huffman codes with a length of up to 20 bits. Unfortunately the Author of bzip2, Julian Seward, changed this in the new version 1.0.3 - it uses only a maximum length of 17 bits now. " (Quoted from http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/bugsandproblems.html ) ?