Hello,
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > > the upstream tarball ? > Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the > md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream developers just > use the default compression. someone gave me a hint that there is varying data in an archive, being a time stamp. A bit of experimenting with gzip, od and sc yields the strong suspicion that the bytes 4-7 (ie, the second long) is the mtime of the original file (ok, this should be restoreable somehow on decompression, so it must be included in the file, no?). Therefore I normally choose to manually apply the patch and then proceed to build the package. Best Regards, --Toni++
