Hi! It seems this is a good part of what needs to be done:
diff --git a/Pristine/Tar/Delta/Tarball.pm b/Pristine/Tar/Delta/Tarball.pm index 121b85e..e8b5ce0 100644 --- a/Pristine/Tar/Delta/Tarball.pm +++ b/Pristine/Tar/Delta/Tarball.pm @@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ sub write { } } - doit("tar", "czf", $deltafile, "-C", $tempdir, keys %$delta); + doit("tar", "--sort=name", + "--mtime=\@0", + "--owner=0", + "--group=0", + "--numeric-owner", + "--pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=atime,delete=ctime", + "-czf", $deltafile, "-C", $tempdir, sort keys %$delta); return $delta; } With this patch applied, invoking `GZIP=-n pristine-tar gendelta foo.tar.gz` does almost do the right thing, except the "wrapper" file contained within the delta file (tarball.) That "wrapper" is compressed with pristine-tar's internal "zgz" tool and unfortunately still embeds a timestamp into the "wrapper" file (with actually is a .gz, but just generated with this `zgz` tool.) MfG, JBG --
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