On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 22:07 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent > thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the > unpacked tarball are featuring his UID/GID. I simply looked into the > uscan source how it is be done there and found: > > GZIP=-9 tar --owner=root --group=root --mode=a+rX -czf <target_tarball> > <source_dir> > > I think this is also to weak because gzip seems to have the behaviour to > not always create byte identical results without the option --no-name
fwiw, all of the calls to gzip in uscan from devscripts 2.11.3 use "-n" (i.e. --no-name). That's only just changed for zip re-packing but has been used for bz2 re-packing since 2009. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
