* Re: [kbd] kbd : suggestion to remove gzip timestamp from compressed consolefonts
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@ 2008-12-21 10:41 ` Alexey Gladkov
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From: Alexey Gladkov @ 2008-12-21 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gilles Espinasse; +Cc: kbd
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> As gzip is used on kbd with MYGZIP = gzip -f -9 to compress consolefonts,
> this include the timestamp (and filename) in each compressed file.
> The result is that two compilations of kbd package at a different time
> produce consolefonts .gz files with different md5.
>
> To help paranoid to sleep and because this is simplier to track changes when
> there is reallly changes, that's possible to remove gzip timestamp adding -n
> option to gzip.
> So consolefonts files are a few bit smaller and keep the same md5 across
> rebuild.
> Even the oldest gzip version I find (gzip-1.2.4 dated from 1993) support -n
> option.
Good catch! I will apply it.
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