Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:14:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:14:22 -0500 Received: from a052082.dsl.fsr.net ([12.32.52.82]:41648 "EHLO sandall.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:14:21 -0500 Message-ID: <43255.134.121.46.137.1048182821.squirrel@mail.sandall.us> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:53:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org From: "Eric Sandall" To: In-Reply-To: <20030320002127.GB7887@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> <20030320002127.GB7887@mail.jlokier.co.uk> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , , , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 31 Jamie Lokier said: > Which is ok of course, but then the signatures don't match any more. > -- Jamie Why not get the signature from the .tar file, that way the compression method doesn't matter? This is how Source Mage does it's checking, we create and md5sum (and soon GPG) signature based on the uncompressed .tar file. This way, you can use any compression you want, even changing around the compression to your favourite one, and the signatures will always match. :) -Sandalle -- PGP Key 0x5C8D199A5A317214 http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5A317214 Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer eric@sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/ http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/