Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 20 March 2003 17:39:20 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
> > 
> > Why not get the signature from the .tar file, that way the compression
> > method doesn't matter?  This is how Source Mage does it's checking, we
> > create and md5sum (and soon GPG) signature based on the uncompressed .tar
> > file.  This way, you can use any compression you want, even changing
> > around the compression to your favourite one, and the signatures will
> > always match.  :)
> 
> (b) On something as large as a .tar, decompressing a bz2 file to check
>     the signature is really quite slow, compared with checking the
>     signature of the compressed file.

That shouldn't matter, most of the times. If you want to build the
code, you have to [bg]unzip anyway, so there is no extra cost.
And I have a hard time to think of a real-world application where you
don't want to unpack but need to verify the signature.

Jörn

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