Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 12:29:46 schrieb Ruediger Meier:
On Tuesday 30 August 2011, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
I'm pretty sure that compression with different versions of old gzip will yield different files.
If you are sure then it should be easy to give an example ...
Even I've tested all version from 1.2.4 (1993) until 1.4 (2010) on different architectures. All deterministic.
AFAIK gzip's determinism is the the only reason why it was possible to implement --rsyncable.
cu, Rudi
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