On 06/27/10 20:33, Brian Harring wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> schrieb: >> >>>> Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet. >>>> But: true, it might change between tar versions. >>> >>> The main offender is the compression program, not tar. >> >> hmm, I'm exclusively using bzip2 and never had these problems >> yet. maybe it depends on the compressor type. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0025.html#the-problem-in-detail > > Note also that bzip2 had another change in output after that > release- my memory is failing me a bit, but it was roughly a > a reduction of their hash size to fix a CVE- either way, same thing, > differing output. Are you thinking about "bzip2 version 1.0.2 worked with huffman codes with a length of up to 20 bits. Unfortunately the Author of bzip2, Julian Seward, changed this in the new version 1.0.3 - it uses only a maximum length of 17 bits now. " (Quoted from http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/bugsandproblems.html ) ?
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-... Ciaran McCreesh
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- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Ciaran McCreesh
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Enrico Weigelt
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Ciaran McCreesh
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Enrico Weigelt
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Ciaran McCreesh
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Brian Harring
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Patrick Lauer
- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules fo... Enrico Weigelt
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- Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for dis... Nirbheek Chauhan
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