On 21/06/17 17:49, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 05:25:32PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> .gz is built with "make distcheck", .xz right after from the same
>>> tree with "make dist-xz".
>>>
>>> What differs?
>>
>> The check sum of both extracted tarballs, not really their content.
>
> Ah. Yeah, that's one of the drawbacks of building two independent
> tarballs - timestamps in the tar header (IIRC), so the end result always
> differs in a few bytes.
>
>> I suggest to create .xz from .gz instead of building another tarball. That
>> way the extracted tarballs from .gz and .xz share the same checksum ->
>> less confusion in case something goes wrong - as it did with 2.4.2 and
>> now.
>
> David, you're listening? Should be an easy-enough change from what
> we have now... ("gunzip <...tar.gz | xz >...tar.xz" or however you
> do xz balls) :-)Hmmm ... not a bad idea. But do we really need tar.gz at all these days? Why not just make autotools generate tar.xz by default and be done with it? Or to put it differently: Which platforms lacks lzma/xz support these days? -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
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