Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:43:42 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get the deterministic result for FreeBSD tar(1)? Message-ID: <20151209094342.GA31098@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <5667C93C.60307@rawbw.com> References: <5666B828.5000306@rawbw.com> <5667C93C.60307@rawbw.com>
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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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