From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 21111@debbugs.gnu.org, Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:55:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8uo6vca.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150722122721.GA6326@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:27:21 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> 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.
Right.
Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and
‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28.
I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it.
Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone?
TIA,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-22 16:15 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
2015-07-22 15:55 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-07-22 20:26 ` Dave Love
2015-07-22 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
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