On 27/05/2015 18:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
Jakob Bohm wrote:
I would suggest (as a future feature) three
new determinism options:
These all sound like nice suggestions. Getting back to the original
request, the biggest problem I see with it is the issue of file
timestamps. Unfortunately, --mtime=debian/changelog loses useful
information in the distribution. Instead, I arrange for each
repository-controlled file to have its repository-controlled timestamp.
And I arrange to have each generated file's timestamp to equal that of
its newest dependency. You can this sort of thing in the
set-timestamps.out rule of
<https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/Makefile>.
I don't think this can be easily folded into 'tar', but at least 'tar'
should be able to do everything else you mention without munging
timestamps.
Agree, though I am not a tar maintainer, so lets hear what they have to say.
Enjoy
Jakob
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