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

[David Barri]

​Good news. I tried the patch and it fixes the problem!

# 1.27 unpatched

> for f in $(seq 200); do tar -cp -T filelist -f - | md5sum; done | uniq  

179a60d139644f62142b35fd2c292e68  -

2e2ed298b902d6abc338358bafbd3772  -

8c5f62d601c1f20dc42a8e94f6a39cb0  -

195c0c2c4814729ee063e08af4fc5ca5  -

e01aebfa80464e78d5374c926766cb48  -

# 1.27 patched

> for f in $(seq 200); do ./tar2 -cp -T filelist -f - | md5sum; done | uniq

06b8780d15e90f7f026ea5da2b1e5aaf  -

Cheers,

David