On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:02 -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: > Among other things, gzip embeds the names of the files that it > zipped ... so why would you expect your two .gz files to be > exactly the same? You'll need to use the same name for the > tar files ... and even then, I bet gzip records date and > time ...
Yes, that gzip behavior is pretty annoying. I wish it would just stick to its job of compression and not embed random metadata in its output; that's tar's job. (TODO: complain upstream.) In any case, the behavior can be turned off with the -n option. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
