Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Dave Love wrote: >> The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are >> all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like >> >> tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00 >> >> I guess that's not intentional, but if it is, it's probably worth a note >> in the installation instructions. > > It is intentional, as part of making things deterministic.
Right. Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and ‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28. I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it. Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone? TIA, Ludo’.
