13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
6:36 p.m.
On 12/13/2011 08:47 PM, jim s wrote:
In applications where traceability is required keeping
the original
goods, and probably md5sums or sha256sums around to verify them is
probably a necessity. The complaint here seems to be something you get
around once then remember it does this and deal with it.
We use tar gz for the reason that it does keep the original around, and
also because tar will verify if you use the right incantation, so you
don't have to gen up something to verify you have a package in a tar
file installed as far having to extract and diff the results.
If the "preserve the original compressed file" behavior is required
for some reason, all one need do is:
gunzip -c filename.gz > filename
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA