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Subject: bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:55:01 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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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
>>=20
>>   tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
>>=20
>> 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 =E2=80=98tar xf=E2=80=
=99 and
=E2=80=98tar xvf=E2=80=99 with GNU=C2=A0tar 1.28.

I tried with different timezones, and I can=E2=80=99t trigger it.

Dave: What version of GNU=C2=A0tar do you use, and in what timezone?

TIA,
Ludo=E2=80=99.