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Re: master 20fa40d: Improve doc for web pages; reproducible tarballs


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: master 20fa40d: Improve doc for web pages; reproducible tarballs
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:36 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Paul Eggert wrote:

> branch: master
> commit 20fa40ddd3e49b73cf2127a147d3b4ee03a3b5ba

> --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
> +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
[...]
> +tar='tar --numeric-owner --owner=0 --group=0 --mode=go+u,go-w --sort=name'

> --- a/make-dist
> +++ b/make-dist

> +  taropt='--numeric-owner --owner=0 --group=0 --mode=go+u,go-w --sort=name'

This breaks make-dist on platforms where tar does not support --sort=name.
Eg RHEL 7.4 with tar (GNU tar) 1.26; and on hydra:

https://hydra.nixos.org/build/72309149

(The build bogusly reports success, but the created tar file is empty
and all derived builds fail.)



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