#1656 Issue `closed`: sourceforge tarball much bigger than OBS tarball (4M versus 500K)¶

Labels: cleanup, fixed / solved / done, external tool, not ReaR / invalid

jsmeix opened issue at 2017-12-21 09:58:¶

Our source tarball rear-2.3.tar.gz at sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/files/rear/
is about 4.8 MB.

In contrast our source tarball rear-2.3.tar.gz in OBS
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Archiving:Backup:Rear/rear-2.3
is about 500 KB.

Unpacking both and comparing them with 'diff -r' shows:

#  diff -r -U0 rear-2.3.sourceforge rear-2.3.OBS

Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge/doc: Makefile.changelog
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.17.2-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.17.2.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.18-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.18.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19-1.git201610111647.fc23.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19-1.git201611300645.fc25.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19-git201610111647.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19-git201611300645.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-1.19.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-2.00-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear-2.00.tar.gz
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: rear.cron
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge/usr/share/rear/skel/default: lib
Only in rear-2.3.sourceforge: var

Somehow additional RPMs and tarballs are in
our rear-2.3.tar.gz at sourceforge.

Ideally our source tarballs should be exactly the same
at sourceforge and in OBS.

gdha commented at 2017-12-21 10:13:¶

Indeed strange - make dist OFFICIAL=1 works better. Uploaded a new tar-ball

jsmeix commented at 2017-12-21 10:28:¶

Now
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/files/rear/
shows

Looking for the latest version?
Download rear-release-notes.txt (49.0 kB)

where "Download rear-release-notes.txt (49.0 kB)" is a link to
https://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/files/latest/download?source=files
and after clicking on "Download rear-release-notes.txt (49.0 kB)"
one really gets only the rear-release-notes.txt file.

gdha commented at 2017-12-21 10:44:¶

That is now fixed as well - thanks for pointing this out - it was automatically selected when I deleted the bad tar-ball.

jsmeix commented at 2017-12-21 11:09:¶

I can confirm it is o.k. now.

FYI:
The tarballs at sourceforge and in OBS are not exactly the same
but when unpacking them there are no differences.
Something makes the two tarballs still somehow different.
Ideally all our tarballs at any place are exactly the same.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]