Re: how do we handle distribution files with different compressions

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Subject: Re: how do we handle distribution files with different compressions
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:12:05 +0100

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 03:37:54PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> suppose repository a has, say
> 
> ftp://nodea/path/rep-version.tar.Z
> 
> and repository b has
> 
> http://nodeb/path/rep-version.tar.gz
> 
> such that
> 
> gzip -d rep-version.tar.gz | compress | cmp /dev/stdin rep-version.tar.Z
> 
> shows no difference.
> 
> Can we handle this situation without much trouble? 

No, we don't support anything like that.

Joerg

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