Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 22:25:00 -0800 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to get the deterministic result for FreeBSD tar(1)? Message-ID: <5667C93C.60307@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <5666B828.5000306@rawbw.com> References: <5666B828.5000306@rawbw.com>
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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. https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/623 Yuri
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