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Old 08-25-2018, 05:13 PM   #36
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by JIPG-reader View Post
OK. I will try with both methods and will compare them until I feel comfortable changing the files.

In theory, should they produce the same final koboroot file or not?
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
Yes, and in reality too. I tested this for 2 months with over 8 different patch sets. It's been stable for quite a while.
Can I add something here? Hopefully it might save someone else some wasted time and energy.

I have had no success whatsoever trying to compare 2 different copies of KoboRoot.tgz using a checksum utility. Even if I run kobopatch twice with identical settings the 2 KoboRoot.tgz files will give different checksums.

To do a useful comparison I have always needed to unpack the contents of KoboRoot.tgz before running the checksum utility on each of the constituent files:
- nickel
- libnickel.so.1.0.0
- librmsdk.so.1.0.0
- libadobe.so

I don't know why the above is true. I always assumed it must be something to do with slight variations during the zipping-up process.
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