Re: bin/57368: NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU gzip

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:50:00AM +0000 schrieb roy%marples.name@localhost:
> >Description:
> It's impossible to sign a gzipped archive because the checksum differs
> between GNU and NetBSD implementations. I cannot find any combination
> of commandline options that match.

Different versions of GNU zip are known to create different streams as
well. For NetBSD's gzip, it primarily depends on zlib and that doesn't
have a deterministic output either. None of the compression libraries
guarantee that. After having burned by this a number of times, github
essentially froze their zlib version for things like the dynamically
generated tarballs.

In short, this is a "won't fix" bug.

Joerg