On 170502-17:51+0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > On 170502-10:33+0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> Miroslav Rovis wrote: > >>> gzip apparently inconsistent behavior occupies the most part of the > >>> report on > >>> inconsistencies here (esp. the script make_gzip_archives_consistent.sh). > >> > >> Checked on my system, same behaviour, looking inside the gzip file you see > >> why. I used > >> shed but strings is easier: > >> > >> $ strings eix-installed-after_1.gz > >> eix-installed-after_1 > >> ... > >> > >> $ strings eix-installed-after_2.gz > >> eix-installed-after_2 > >> ... > >> > >> gzip stores the filename in the compressed file so the files differ. > > > > No, it doesn't, on my system. Did you really check the files: > > https://lists.gt.net/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=51651;list=gentoo > > https://lists.gt.net/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=51652;list=gentoo > > (these should download as eix-installed-after_1.gz former and > > eix-installed-after_2.gz the latter)? > > > > And they have these SHA256: > > > > fff6f3f0f07c863fee6962379f063f742578569fd13fcee3df9161b4a6d99aa7 > > eix-installed-after_1.tar.gz > > b88cd07885fbdc2235c9c64be7d02aa9ace7661cc2fce07909355e369366b408 > > eix-installed-after_2.tar.gz > > > > If you did check those files, and there are the strings you say, at what > > byte, the start, and the end... Really don't know how you got that... > > I did not use your files, I re-generated them on my system based on the > /usr/bin/eix-installed-after installed on my system, as you suggested. The > command I used > was plain gzip, not tar, since the difference in the files appears to come > from the gzip > execution. which then is not dealing with the same issue.
> I just checked your files: > > $ cmp -bl gzip_buggy.txt_1.tar.gz gzip_buggy.txt_2.tar.gz > 5 7 ^G 12 ^J Didn't know about cmp. Thanks for a fine example! But cmp found the same which I found upon visual inspecting with hexdump, and which differences (but it was a futile non-necessary exercize) I removed with the script I gave in the first email. > They differ in byte 5 which, according to the link I posted, is inside the > MTIME field. > Looks to me that this gzip issue is a non-issue. Yes, and thanks for the confirmation. > Regarding the other issues, maybe someone else will have the time to go > through the > complete email, even the abridged one you re-sent is too much for me. Or > maybe if you > could concentrate on one issue at a time only... > > raffaele It is now (likely) only two (2) issues left to go of the four (4) there from the abridged email, because I got a reply for another issue in the meantime. But sadly more trouble looming with my system (looks actually from a bigger subject, the first onw on the way and it's shadow)... Regards! -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia https://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
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