On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:25:15 -0700 Tianon Gravi <tia...@debian.org> wrote: > The context for this bug is in [1]. The basic gist is that I need to > preserve extended attributes to get the proper capabilities on > "/bin/ping" inside a rootfs tarball, so I updated my GNU tar invocation > to include "--xattrs", "--acls", and "--selinux" (just for good > measure). > > [1]: https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/pull/38
It gets worse -- apparently any combination of "--xattrs" (with or without "--xattrs-include" values) makes GNU tar's output completely unreproducible (running it on the same directory twice will provide a different result). I've noted this in [2], and provided a full `hexdump` in [3]. [2]: https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/pull/38#issuecomment-393992413 [3]: https://gist.github.com/tianon/5bbfe30a4e889dcece42b8d210f8c8f9 (I poked lamby on IRC about where to note this for the reproducible builds project as a whole, and he told me to just append it to this bug for now.) ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
