Reiner Herrmann: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:41:16PM +0100, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> When running diffoscope on two APKs using version 66, it now just does a >> straight binary comparison of the direct file itself. Running >> diffoscope 64 generated a nice output of the individual files in the ZIP >> (an APK is a signed JAR with some other special features). Attached is >> the output from v66. You can find v64 output here: >> >> http://37.218.242.117/ >> >> You can download these two APKs to test with from here: >> >> http://37.218.242.117/aarddict.android_26.apk >> https://f-droid.org/repo/aarddict.android_26.apk > > Just had a short look at this. The reason is that file/libmagic detects > the files differently: > > $ file 1/aarddict.android_26.apk 2/aarddict.android_26.apk > 1/aarddict.android_26.apk: Java archive data (JAR) > 2/aarddict.android_26.apk: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract > > So the APK comparator should probably also work on files detected as zip. >
Yeah, that makes sense as long as libmagic cannot reliably detect APKs vs JAR vs ZIP. _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
