Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> pristine-tar fails to reproduce
>>
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.3/downloads/openmpi-1.3.4.tar.bz2
>> MD5: 978c29f3b671856daa0fc67459b73e01
>> SHA1: f62247e80296509d22b34bd4db1c230422210ad3
>>
>> I don't know how that file was generated but it doesn't seem to be
>> plain bzip2, pbzip2 nor lbzip2.
>
> Added to my test suite. I tried a few things (bzip2 -s for example),
> but no luck reproducing this file yet.
>
> That makes two bzip2 files that it's known to fail on. (Other is
> polymake.) Maybe I should think about a pristine-gz style fallback
> to a binary delta.
How much does that help? Do those bzip2 files converge again so you
only need to store some kb delta or is basically everything after the
first difference changed?
MfG
Goswin
PS: some fallback would indeed be nice. Openmpi releases a orig.tar.gz
too so I did fall back to that but the next case might not have that
option.
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