Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:16 -0700 > Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So it seems that with the currently shipping versions of gzip (I tried >> both "stable/updates" and "testing"), there is actually no way to >> exactly replicate the compression pr

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:50:53AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It turns out that the zlib1g-dev package contains a program called > "minigzip" in source form. This is what's needed; "minigzip -9" > reproduces exactly the compression used by dpkg-deb, unlike regular > gzip. This may not produce iden

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Ian Bruce
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:45:16 -0700 Ian Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems that with the currently shipping versions of gzip (I tried > both "stable/updates" and "testing"), there is actually no way to > exactly replicate the compression produced by the standard package > build system.

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
Followup to the other lists too... On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:15:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > > > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's static

Re: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically > linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically linked > against zlib1g or something like it. So the question is, how can the > exact compression a