can't gunzip sources

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Thu Jan 6 00:45:43 EST 2005


* Tom Pimienta <stpimienta at comcast.net> [20050106 06:08]:
> That seems to be the problem: FireFox gunzipped them during download...
> 
> Still, I can't verify digests, even after gzipping the tar.

gzip includes a time stamp in the compressed file, as you can see if
you execute this line:

  while true; do echo hallo|gzip|md5sum; done

So even if you use an identical compression factor, you will get
different output though the content is identical.

Thomas

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