Re: Please, use --check=crc32 or switch to a safe format

[Ariel Santana Naranjo]

2017-03-25 22:07 GMT+00:00 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:

>
>  - xz uncompressed data is checksummed with crc64 by default
>

But this is exactly the problem, that Busybox does not understand crc64.


> Your proposal is to specify --check=crc32 when compressing
> to support checks with busybox unxz.
>

Yes, or switch to a safe format.


> This seems fair enough, but would also probably hit
> the pristine-tar issue mentioned in this thread:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00014.html
>

If I understood how pristine-tar works, it seems like yet another reason
to choose a simpler format, with not so many options for pristine-tar to
figure out, no?

Thank you,

Ariel Santana.