* Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> 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. > > A more sophisticated approach, IMHO, would be: directly fetching > > from the VCS > > Yes, upstreams are going to love you for that... Why ? Because of traffic ? Of course, distros should work from their own clones (yes, yes, I'm assuming modern VCS'es, not toys like svn ;-p) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
