GNU bug report logs - #32342
[PATCH] Do not store mtime when compressing stdin

Previous Next

Package: gzip;

Reported by: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann <at> suse.de>

Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #8 received at 32342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann <at> suse.de>, 32342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32342: [PATCH] Do not store mtime when compressing stdin
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 23:47:48 -0700

Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
> This allows for reproducible output of
> echo foo | gzip | md5sum

gzip -n already does that, so we don't need to change the gzip source code to 
get reproducible output.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 344 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.