On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > wget -q -O 1.deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/$file > wget -q -O 2.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/$file > diff 1.deb 2.deb > > Binary files 1.deb and 2.deb differ > > How could this happen? Should I worry about it?
$ diff -u <(cd 1 && find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum) <(cd 2 && find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum) --- /dev/fd/63 Wed Dec 3 18:11:59 2003 +++ /dev/fd/62 Wed Dec 3 18:11:59 2003 @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ efcb0a3d92c575963f4cd4e4f79f425f ./usr/share/doc/libpng2/changelog.gz 54119d0a36cff7d0822489193119fc83 ./usr/share/doc/libpng2/ANNOUNCE.gz ebe766baed86109342285496d792d3ef ./usr/share/doc/libpng2/KNOWNBUG.gz -9371022fb0313ab0b2062202383c57ec ./usr/share/doc/libpng2/changelog.Debian.gz +3f9dfa57c390b6465b655e12f4b3490a ./usr/share/doc/libpng2/changelog.Debian.gz 27164cfa4772e8424149aaa801119ead ./usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12 $ diff -u <(zcat 1/usr/share/doc/libpng2/changelog.Debian.gz) <(zcat 2/usr/share/doc/libpng2/changelog.Debian.gz) $ It looks like that the two binary packages were built on different places but have basically the same content. Gabor