Re: [Bug-tar] Tar 1.27 has become non-deterministic

[David Barri]

Fair enough. I was hoping just the description of the problem would be enough for someone to say "Ah! Yes, that will be because of xxxx!" but no such luck it seems.

Ok, I'll try to come up with a set of data that reliably reproduces it.

Cheers

On 3 November 2013 18:52, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

David Barri wrote:
> Sure. Here's a diff between two tars I created using tar -cp -T filelist
>
>> > diff -u <(xxd a.tar) <(xxd b.tar)

I'm afraid that's not enough information for me to reproduce the problem,
nor do I get the significance of those differences.

Here's how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the problem:

$ echo foo >foo
$ tar -cf tar1 foo
$ tar -cf tar2 foo
$ cmp tar1 tar2
$