<farkuhar>
For example: with the latest version of contrib/go, when making the compressed package you get different footprints using `bsdtar --format=gnutar -c -J -f go#1.20.6-1.pkg.tar.xz` versus `bsdtar --format=gnutar -a -cf go#1.20.6-1.pkg.tar.xz`
<farkuhar>
almost 10000 files will be missing from the footprint with the latter command. Curiously there's no such discrepancy when using gzip or bzip2 compression, the mismatch only happens with xz.
<SiFuh>
Worried about file sizes?
<farkuhar>
SiFuh: the files that get discarded when the autocompress switch -a is given (rather than the explicit compression mode -J) don't seem to be chosen based on their size. And you get the expected footprint with the -a flag and other compression modes. It's just the xz format that suffers data loss.
<SiFuh>
farkuhar: I am teasing you because you mentioned similar when I was working on a slimmed down version of a bootable CRUX installation medium :-P