On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Gert Wollny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Since you mentioned that you are creating the tarball anyway I hope you
> > considered xz or bz2 compression in favour of gz.
> >
> > > For me, git-buildpackage goes ahead and creates
> > > the tar.gz files from the content of the upstream branch.
> >
> > :-( seem you are more lucky than me. I guess it might be related to
> > the fact that you are keeping some local copy.
> Actually, I also tried it, downloaded straight with "git clone" and
> git-buildpackage created a tarball of size 403361093 (385M according to
> 'ls -lh') and with md5sum 2388023d7409f20812939ba1f42ac726.
>
>
> Building itself failed because I worked inside a virtual machine without
> enough free disk space.
>
> git-buildpackage is Version: 0.6.8 in a debian-unstable-64 bit
> installation updated yesterday without any tweaks to the Debian build
> system.
>
>
Gert,
Thanks for looking into this.
I can confirm that I'm using:
git-buildpackage 0.6.8
I can also confirm the size of the tarball generated by git-buildpackage:
403361093 vista-foia_0.20130405.orig.tar.gz
Thanks
Luis