On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 14:52 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > If *that* were still a concern for a compression tool (as opposed to > > various vendor `tar' programs), then heck it should not be promoted at > > all for wider use. No, I don't think each package using Automake should > > be turned into a regression test suite for lzma. That's more fear, > > Most of the compressors offer an option to test the compressed file. > For lzma, gunzip, and bunzip2, that is provided by the -t option, and > for zip, it is the -T option. It is probably not a bad idea to at > least verify that the same tool thinks that the package can be > properly decompressed.
might be simpler to layer this: dist-tar to get a tar dist-$compressor builds a compressed version from that tar. You can test each compressor has compressed correctly by decompressing to a temp file and checking cmp $temptar $origtar -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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