David Paleino wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:29:37 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:24:09 +0200, David Paleino wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:05:31 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> > >> > > David Paleino wrote: >> > > >> > > > Now, the fact is that the resulting tarball has very different md5sums >> > > > at each run -- and I found no way to have the same exact md5sum of the >> > > > .orig.tar.gz that would be uploaded to Debian: >> > > > >> > > > [..] >> > > > >> > > > I thought that this could be related to timestamps -- but I found no >> > > > option in `man tar` to remove timestamps from archived files (I thought >> > > > that, removing timestamps, the files would have been all the same). >> > > > I can also confirm that the files in the archives are always the same >> > > > (checked with `tar -tf` and diffing the lists). >> > > > >> > > > What can I do here? >> > > >> > > AFAIK the problem is not tar, but gzip. If I read correctly man gzip, >> > > your solution would be to use tar first, and then gzip -9n. >> > >> > -n... I'll try that, thanks :) >> >> Great, it worked :) > > No, it didn't... I md5sum'ed the same file before... :( > > I'm open to other suggestions,
I was thinking a bit about this, and apparently this is a not-so-trivial problem. Maybe you can try pristine-tar which attempts to do this. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]