Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:10:01 GMT From: Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/134955: gzip always stores time stamp since 6.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <200905261110.n4QBA1QV049307@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200905261120.n4QBK1kY092571@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 134955 >Category: bin >Synopsis: gzip always stores time stamp since 6.3-RELEASE >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue May 26 11:20:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Helmut Schneider >Release: 7.2-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: >Description: Since 6.3 (according to the manual) -n (--no-name) does store the timestamp of a file. With 6.2 gzip behaved as expected. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gzip&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gzip&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE&format=html http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html#Sample Problem: 2 archives cannot easily be compared e.g. using CRC even if the files are identical but have a different time stamp. One must either extract the files, use -vl and cut the CRC, ... >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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