Re: [Help-tar] --deterministic option?

[Jakob Bohm]

On 27/05/2015 18:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jakob Bohm wrote:
> > I would suggest (as a future feature) three
> > new determinism options:
>
> These all sound like nice suggestions.  Getting back to the original
> request, the biggest problem I see with it is the issue of file
> timestamps. Unfortunately, --mtime=debian/changelog loses useful
> information in the distribution.  Instead, I arrange for each
> repository-controlled file to have its repository-controlled timestamp.
> And I arrange to have each generated file's timestamp to equal that of
> its newest dependency.  You can this sort of thing in the
> set-timestamps.out rule of
> <https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/Makefile>.
>
> I don't think this can be easily folded into 'tar', but at least 'tar'
> should be able to do everything else you mention without munging
> timestamps.

Agree, though I am not a tar maintainer, so lets hear what they have to say.

Enjoy

Jakob
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