On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I guess I spoke to soon. I was right concerning xdelta3 using gzip for >> handling gzipped files, however it doesn't use the -n flag. This gives >> us the same behaviour as xdelta1, with one minor difference: Method 1. >> stops working. > > Wait. I don't understand something. If it doesn't use the -n flag, how can > we produce an md5sum-identical patched file? (The mtime is unpredictable.) > This poses an extra problem, or not? I just did an effective test on > xdelta3-diffing .tar.gz files and I saw that the patched md5sum indeed > differ from the original one :-( Maybe we should search for a gzip header > manipulation tool... >
One of the proposal was to use gzip -n, which should fix this problem. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
