Paul Iadonisi wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:20 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
And it also makes little sense to bzip tarballs that end up in gzipped payloads imho.
Which begs the question ... why has Red Hat (at least in some cases, historically), veered (admittedly only slightly) from the pristine source principle by uncompressing gzipped tarballs and recompressing them with bzip2 only to stuff them in into an rpm if rpm uses gzip?
Well that's a different qestion.
At the end of a release, there is invariably a fire drill to attempt to fit on one fewer CD's.
Part of the exercise usually results in tarballs within *.src.rpm's being recompressed
to save space. Not that it saves much, nor ar *.src.rpm's usually part of the primary
battle.
Certainly the contents are not changed. All depends on whether you consider recomprssing a modification to "pristine sources".
73 de Jeff
