On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:43 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:29 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:25 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > > > Ok, I've just had a conversation on IRC with Lasse Collin, the > > > maintainer of xz. He's now planning on changing xz so it will produce > > > the same output independent of endianess. He hasn't committed to any > > > timeframe, though. > > > > <snip> > > > > Sorry, forgot to mention, another option would be to sign the > > *uncompressed* data in an rpm, so if the compressed data was different, > > it wouldn't matter. > > > > This would be a lot easier from the maintenance side of things, but I'm > > not sure how feasible this big of a change in rpm would be. > > That doesn't work, before yum checks the signatures it checks the > createrepo checksum ... which is a sha256 (or whatever) of the entire > rpm¹. So deltarpm must produce exactly the same bits. > > > ¹ Asking someone to change this to be the headers plus uncompressed data > is likely to be unhealthy for you. So I'll just keep my mouth shut and not bring this suggestion up again. :) Along with the other one that I'm never supposed to speak of again. Jonathan
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