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From: "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>
To: 45675@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45675: Zip-based archives store timestamps
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:10:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dor34xe.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

A procedure like reset-gzip-timestamp should be useful for
reproducibility purposes, adapted to zip based archives as Smalltalk's
STAR or Java's JAR binary formats, as some or all of their contents are
generated usually at build time.

On the latest Zip specification[1], which only seem to be encumbered
regarding encryption, there is one header ID which could be used for
timestamp purposes (0x0020) but third party header IDs are allowed,
which include a "commonly used" 0x5455 timestamp.

[1] https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/APPNOTE/APPNOTE-6.3.8.TXT




             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-05 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 13:10 Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas [this message]
2021-01-05 15:17 ` bug#45675: Zip-based archives store timestamps Julien Lepiller
2021-01-06 22:34   ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-01-06 23:10     ` Julien Lepiller

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