Rockbox mail archive
Subject: Re: Who took four bytes?
From: Robert Hak (rhak_at_ramapo.edu)
Date: 2003-03-22
I also deleted spaces in several files.. those may count :)
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
TP Diffenbach wrote:
> I'm looking at the rockbox daily builds
> (http://rockbox.haxx.se/daily.shtml) and I notice that there are no
> change log entries for the March 22nd build. But, the March 22nd
> build is four bytes smaller thna the the March 21st build:
>
> # rockbox-daily-20030321.tar.gz (518770 bytes) Changelog (1 changes)
> # rockbox-daily-20030322.tar.gz (518766 bytes) Changelog (0 changes)
>
> So how's that happen?
Although no source code has changed, some file/directory dates have
changed in the tar file, and the root directory name
(rockbox-daily-20030322). That affects the compression of the tarball,
leading to a different file size.
/Linus
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