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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:39:20 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
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Eric Sandall wrote:
> Jamie Lokier said:
> <snip>
> > Which is ok of course, but then the signatures don't match any more.
> <snip>
> > -- 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.  :)

(a) I use .gz for the patches not the tar files.  But your point still applies.

(b) On something as large as a .tar, decompressing a bz2 file to check
    the signature is really quite slow, compared with checking the
    signature of the compressed file.

-- Jamie
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