From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 20fa40d: Improve doc for web pages; reproducible tarballs Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: <97lge817tj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20180330231211.6450.29690@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180330231214.7A6F82041C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522516699 18794 195.159.176.226 (31 Mar 2018 17:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:18:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Paul Eggert To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 19:18:15 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f2K8t-0004oP-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:18:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2KAw-0003TT-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2KAF-0003Ss-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2KAE-00067f-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2KAE-00067U-Jx; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f2KAC-0005lW-T3; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:19:36 -0400 X-Spook: Domestic nuclear detection Telecommunications Watergate X-Ran: 7aa^H$iPe*HTt.vgp5H&4dJp$R/!MHT~Mtd3S'nMAF\rQ4Ev9*~!p7p*e!X7lQkFj62JFN X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20180330231214.7A6F82041C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:12:12 -0400 (EDT)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224208 Archived-At: 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.)