From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us>
Cc: tigran@veritas.com, hpa@zytor.com, mirrors@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:39:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320173920.GA2362@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43255.134.121.46.137.1048182821.squirrel@mail.sandall.us>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 20:19 H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-19 20:39 ` wind
2003-03-19 20:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-19 20:57 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-03-19 21:12 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-03-19 21:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-19 21:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-03-19 22:06 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-03-19 23:46 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 8:27 ` Thierry Vignaud
2003-03-20 8:40 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-03-20 15:37 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-03-20 11:23 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " Bruno Cornec
2003-03-20 0:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-20 17:53 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 17:39 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-03-20 18:31 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 21:14 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-25 15:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-03-26 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-20 14:03 ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-19 21:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-03-20 22:17 ` LA Walsh
2003-03-20 23:30 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-21 0:09 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-21 4:42 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-21 7:24 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-19 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <1048114783.5033.70.camel@tombigbee.neark.org>
2003-03-19 23:29 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 3:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-19 22:44 ` DervishD
2003-03-20 0:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-20 9:55 ` John Bradford
2003-03-20 13:10 ` John Jasen
2003-03-20 13:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20 10:03 ` Erik Hensema
2003-03-20 16:32 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 16:42 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-20 17:51 ` Eli Carter
2003-03-20 18:04 ` Thomas Duffy
2003-03-25 16:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-03-25 16:25 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-25 16:34 ` Stephen Frost
2003-03-25 20:26 ` Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org aka BogoMips Marc Giger
2003-03-20 18:10 ` Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-24 2:12 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-24 2:24 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-24 2:40 ` nick
2003-03-24 11:33 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 17:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-20 18:12 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 17:48 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-20 17:57 ` Dana Lacoste
2003-03-20 18:24 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-20 18:34 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " Ryan Finnie
2003-03-20 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <20030320165007$503c@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320180014$0e31@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320182006$46bf@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 18:44 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-03-20 19:52 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-23 23:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-03-20 21:54 Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 22:13 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-20 23:14 ` Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 23:34 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-21 6:26 ` Ville Herva
2003-03-21 6:38 ` Ville Herva
2003-03-21 7:26 ` Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <200303211124.h2LBO6mU011361@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
2003-03-21 11:28 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-03-21 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-21 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
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