Paul Eggert: > 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.
Agreed. We list two solutions on our help page regarding the issue: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInTarball The second method uses find+xargn+touch to “clamp” mtimes of files created during the build to a predefined value while leaving the others untouched. I guess a `--clamp-mtime` (or a better name) option could also be implemented in directly Tar with similar semantics. -- Lunar .''`. [email protected] : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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