From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:55:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8uo6vca.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mkwcspq.fsf@pc102091.liv.ac.uk> <20150722122721.GA6326@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHwfj-00064D-0x for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:15:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHwff-0004lQ-1O for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:15:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHwfe-0004kr-VI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:15:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHwfe-0001WP-DT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:15:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150722122721.GA6326@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:27:21 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: 21111@debbugs.gnu.org, Dave Love Andreas Enge 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.