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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Cc: 21111@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:27:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150722122721.GA6326@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mkwcspq.fsf@pc102091.liv.ac.uk>

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are
> all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like
> 
>   tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
> 
> I guess that's not intentional, but if it is, it's probably worth a note
> in the installation instructions.

It is intentional, as part of making things deterministic.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 11:55 bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball Dave Love
2015-07-22 12:27 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2015-07-22 15:55   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-22 20:26     ` Dave Love
2015-07-22 20:59       ` Ludovic Courtès

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