On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 03:49, Axel Thimm wrote: > Hi, > > I observed that recreating the headers of the same set of rpms is creating > *.hdr files that are different in content. Does some date enter the *.hdr > files? > > Would it be possible to have the same *.hdr files produced (maybe even > timestamp them with the time of the rpm itself)? The reason I am asking is > that it may save some rsync time for repository mirroring (e.g. when I build a > new rpm and recreate the *.hdr files I have to rsync all *.hdr to the master > repo) and also improve caching (yummers with a cache don't need to reget all > *.hdr files because I added only one new). so I found out a bit more on this after playing a bit. it's not the rpm functions that are causing the variation - its gzip. gzip even acts like this from the command line. I'll see what else I can find out - but it looks like this may be unavoidable. Thanks -sv
