Re: BAD: Handling of package-index by package release and install system

Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: The first fault in the reasoning is that you're actually using two programs: tar and gzip. If I try the test like this: tar cf x.tar test-dir tar cf y.tar test-dir ...the resulting files are the same. However, if I do this: tar czf x.tar.gz test-dir tar czf y.tar.gz test-dir ...they differ. The problem is that `gzip' "helpfully" adds a timestamp to the file, even it is completely unneeded for TAR files which keep their own timestamp information. Hopefully, there is a flag that removes this. So if I try: tar cf - test-dir | gzip -cn > x.tar.gz tar cf - test-dir | gzip -cn > y.tar.gz ...the files are the same. Does this work for you?