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Subject: Re: How to get the deterministic result for FreeBSD tar(1)?
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg () britannica ! bec ! de>
Date: 2015-12-09 9:43:42
Message-ID: 20151209094342.GA31098 () britannica ! bec ! de
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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:25:00PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> On 12/08/2015 02:59, Yuri wrote:
> >So I have two questions:
> >1. How do I actually achieve the output determinism for tar(1)?
> >2. Is there an agreement that this is a bug that too long or non-ASCII
> >path name triggers the leakage of ctime into a tar file?
>
> Answering to myself: turns out this is a major bug in libarchive, making
> tar(1) in general unable to produce the deterministic output.
As you have been told, there are mechanisms like mtree that can be used
to explicitly control data. As such, please keep a sense of proportion
-- it's hardly a major bug.
Joerg
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