On 21/07/2024 18:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2024-07-21 10:44, Pádraig Brady wrote:
We can just rely on the timestamp of the .tarball-version
to support reproducible _tarballs_.
Although this makes the distributed file contents reproducible, the
tarballs themselves are still not reproducible, since they contain
random timestamps and (I imagine) other metadata. I vaguely recall Bruno
having a general solution for that sort of problem but don't recall
where it got put. (I do something more complicated in TZDB.)
Fair enough. That issue is discussed at:
https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Reproducibility.html
For now at least I'll adjust the summary
to say "tarball contents" rather than "tarballs".
thanks,
Pádraig
