Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org | Date | 20 Mar 2003 15:50:10 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200303202154.h2KLsDcT009516@marc2.theaimsgroup.com> By author: Hank Leininger <linux-kernel@progressive-comp.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On 2003-03-20, Joern Engel <joern () wohnheim ! fh-wedel ! de> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 March 2003 17:39:20 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > (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. >
Just to finish this debate: I have added support for generating .sign files from .gz files, and those are currently being generated, but I will not remove .gz.sign or .bz2.sign files.
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