On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:15:31AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > In farce, Ken had some > functions that would skip these stamps, but I don't recall how he > implemented that. > For gzipped files, just cmp -s -i 8 (the comment says bytes 4,5,6,7 are the timestamp, hopefully everything ahead of it is the magic).
At least you aren't asking me to explain the perl regexp which converts known text patterns (kernel version, date and time). That's the sort of thing that might need updating for new date formats in updated packages. From memory, some of those date-format differences took a long while to show up and depended in part on things like rebuilding in a different month or different timezone (the return to non-summertime in Europe was yesterday, so probably missed that). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
