Binary diffs for deb files

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed May 3 01:16:20 BST 2006


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:13:05AM +0100, James Hall wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 17:04 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Where are you getting the correct timestamps for the new versions of
> > control.tar and data.tar?  Does bsdiff/bspatch preserve those for you?
> 
> control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz have their timestamp preserved when
> decompressed and bsdiff/bspatch simply leaves it alone.

The timestamps won't be the same for different versions of the .deb.

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 - mdz



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