On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:41 -0400, Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
> > I'd say this is to be expected because (ar) archives contain time stamps
> > which change with every build. That is also why I would expect every RPM
> > to have different checksums, because it again contains a (cpio) archive
> > which contains timestamps.
> >
> > Nils
>
> Of course, but that shouldn't change the file sizes.
Sure it does ;-) as the contained archives are compressed and different
timestamps of files in there result in different data to be compressed
(the uncompressed archive) which will almost inevitably result in
different sizes of the compressed archive.
Nils
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